![]() ![]() For some time - months, at least - these guardians have succeeded in staving off incursions across the sandy desolation. ![]() They hang beneath highway culverts, probing constantly for a hated enemy. Vigilant camouflaged monitors scan from atop hills or under innocuous piles of stones. The other side claims there are no victims.Īnd so, suspicious cameras peer and pan, alert for encroachment. One side calls the struggle a war, with countless innocent lives in jeopardy. All rights reserved.Ĭameras stare across a forbidden desert, monitoring disputed territory in a conflict that is so bitter the opponents cannot even agree what to name it. Originally published as “Life in the Extreme” by Popular Science Magazine Special Edition, 8/1998. Hacker Sander is spoiled, temperamental and a champion rock-jock, expert at the game of Space War… till a crash landing throws him into lethal peril. “Aficionado” takes you on a wild rocket ride - the new sport of the super-rich in 2050. So where is Everybody? Do civilizations make the same fatal mistakes, over and over? Might we be the first to cross the minefield, evading every trap to learn the secret of EXISTENCE? David Brin’s bold novel EXISTENCE explores the ultimate question: Billions of planets may be ripe for life, even intelligence. ![]()
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