Rainbows End

A Novel with One Foot in the Future

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Rainbows End
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Rainbows End

A Novel with One Foot in the Future

  • 3.6 (32 ratings) ·
  • 39 Want to read
  • 42 Have read

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World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego, in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored, reality's a shock. Books are just about gone. Computers are old news, replaced by "smart" contact lenses that connect him to the Internet via his clothes and wireless nodes just about everywhere. Buildings look low rent -- unless you're wearing. Then, they look like whatever you want. Even he is different. He's seventy-five, but his treatment has made him look almost a teen. And that's just the tip of the iceberg in the new Digital Age.

As Gu tries to catch up with his future, a mysterious stranger draws him and other innocents into a conspiracy that could have disastrous consequences. Before he knows it, he's in so deep that even his high-ranking military son and daughter-in-law are clueless. His only hope -- the world's only hope -- is that his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri and her secret friend, Mr. Rabbit, might be able to keep the worst from happening....

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2019, 北京联合出版公司
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2016, 四川科学技术出版社
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彩虹尽头
2009, 四川科学技术出版社
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Rainbows End
May 29, 2007, TORSF 1/1/2007 1/1/2007 1/1/20
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Rainbows End
Apr 03, 2007, St. Martins Press-3PL
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Aug 20, 2007, ROBERT LAFFONT
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April 3, 2007, Tor Science Fiction
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Rainbows End: A Novel with One Foot in the Future
2007, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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2006, Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, Tor
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Rainbows End: A Novel With One Foot In The Future
May 2, 2006, Tor Books
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368

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OL34850037M
ISBN 13
9781429991896

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