Earth

It's fifty years from tomorrow, and a black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core. A team of scientists frantically searches for a way to prevent the mishap from causing harm, only to discover another black hole already feeding relentlessly at the core - one that could destroy the entire planet within two years.

But some argue that the only way to save the Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to let the million-year evolutionary clock rewind and start all over again.

From an underground lab in New Zealand to a space station in Low Earth Orbit, from an endangered species conservation park in Africa to a home in New Orleans, EARTH is a gripping novel peopled with extraordinary characters and abundant with challenging new ideas. Above all, it is an impassioned testament about our own responsibility to our endangered planet.

“This book is not just a green globe-trotting adventure; it is also a thoughtful mix of warning and promise - GUARDIANOne hell of a novel . . . has what sci-fi readers want these days; intelligence, action, and an epic scale - ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINEHe weaves the alien textures exquisitely - NEW SCIENTIST”

This book is not just a green globe-trotting adventure; it is also a thoughtful mix of warning and promise - GUARDIAN

One hell of a novel . . . has what sci-fi readers want these days; intelligence, action, and an epic scale - ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE

He weaves the alien textures exquisitely - NEW SCIENTIST

David Brin is the acclaimed Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of ten novels and two collections of short stories. He has a doctorate in astrophysics, and has been a consultant to NASA and a graduate-level physics professor. He lives in California.

It's fifty years from tomorrow, and a black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core. A team of scientists frantically searches for a way to prevent the mishap from causing harm, only to discover another black hole already feeding relentlessly at the core - one that could destroy the entire planet within two years.But some argue that the only way to save the Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to let the million-year evolutionary clock rewind and start all over again. From an underground lab in New Zealand to a space station in Low Earth Orbit, from an endangered species conservation park in Africa to a home in New Orleans, EARTH is a gripping novel peopled with extraordinary characters and abundant with challenging new ideas. Above all, it is an impassioned testament about our own responsibility to our endangered planet.

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