
A house between Earth and the moon / Rebecca Scherm.
Title:
A house between Earth and the moon / Rebecca Scherm.
ISBN:
9781101980101
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Publication Information:
New York, NY : Viking, [2022]
Physical Description:
388 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
The gripping story of one scientist in outer space, another who watches over him, the family left behind, and the lengths people will go to protect the people and planet they love. Scientist Alex Welch-Peters has believed for twenty years that his super-algae can reverse the effects of climate change. When Sensus, the colossal tech company, offers him a chance to complete his research, he seizes the opportunity. Alex and six other scientists become Pioneers, the beta tenants of Parallaxis, the first-ever luxury residential space station built for billionaires. Meanwhile, back on Earth, amid a conflagration of wildfires, Alex's daughter tries to survive high school with the help of the ubiquitous Sensus phones implanted in everyone's ears. The Pioneers are the beta testers of another program, too, an algorithm that will predict human behavior. Tess, a young social psychologist Sensus has hired to watch the Pioneers through their phones, takes it a step further, traveling to Parallaxis to observe them up close and leading the controlled experiment to unravel. Prescient and insightful, A House Between Earth and the Moon is at once an epic about the machinations of big tech and a meditation on the bonds that hold humans together—Adapted from information provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1259511189
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