The Hero
2008
First Published
3.85
Average Rating
30
Number of Pages
Treasure awaits, in the howling maw of a Capital Bug the size of a city, and Jessie's on the verge of snagging that treasure for himself. There's only one problem: he's only got days to live. Maybe the sinister Precipice Moth lurking in the cavernous innards of the Bug can help—if Jessie is willing to strike the kind of bargain with it that not even a dying man would take...
Avg Rating
3.85
Number of Ratings
27
5 STARS
19%
4 STARS
59%
3 STARS
15%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
4%
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Author
Karl Schroeder
Author · 16 books
Karl Schroeder is an award-winning Canadian science fiction author. His novels present far-future speculations on topics such as nanotechnology, terraforming, augmented reality and interstellar travel, and have a deeply philosophical streak. One of his concepts, known as thalience, has gained some currency in the artificial intelligence and computer networking communities.
