A brief history of the future (Heftet)
Forfatter:
| Forfatter: | Stephen Clarke |
| Innbinding: | Heftet |
| Utgivelsesår: | 2011 |
| Forlag: | Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import) |
| Språk: | Engelsk |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780552777575 |
| Kategori: | Romaner |
Omtale A brief history of the future
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 ...