A Brief History of the Future |
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Author:
| Clarke, Stephen |
ISBN: | 978-1-78416-369-3 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2018 |
Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Limited
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Imprint: | Black Swan |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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What if teleportation was really possible? Englishman Richie Fisher is about to find out ... Richie and his wife Clara have won a weekend in New York in a newspaper competition. While Clara is off blowing their spending money, Richie wanders aimlessly, chewing on a veggie-burger, ending up in a gift-shop where he finds himself standing in front of an instant transporter machine. It looks nothing like the open-plan teleporter on Captain Kirk's Starship Enterprise;...
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What if teleportation was really possible? Englishman Richie Fisher is about to find out ...
Richie and his wife Clara have won a weekend in New York in a newspaper competition. While Clara is off blowing their spending money, Richie wanders aimlessly, chewing on a veggie-burger, ending up in a gift-shop where he finds himself standing in front of an instant transporter machine. It looks nothing like the open-plan teleporter on Captain Kirk's Starship Enterprise; in fact, it seems more like a glorified microwave oven.
Richie places his burger inside, hits the return key on the linked-up computer - and the burger disappears. But if he can teleport a half-eaten veggie-burger, what else could you do with the machine? For criminals, the possibilities are endless. Who could catch you if you beamed drugs into nostrils a hundred miles away? And how much would illegal immigrants pay to be teleported into the rich host country of their choice?
Richie buys a teleporter and takes it back to England, where the chaos begins ...