Farside Cannon
Farside Cannon is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger McBride Allen.
 First edition | |
| Author | Roger MacBride Allen |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Alan Gutierrez |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Baen Books |
Publication date | 1988 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 406 |
| ISBN | 0-671-65428-4 |
| OCLC | 18356948 |
Plot summary
Relations between Settlement Worlds and Earth is a constant source of tension. A geologist, Garrison Morrow, discovers himself in the middle of the two parties when a series of peculiar events occur, thus leading him deeper and deeper into the delicate balance of political powers on the Moon and the rest of the Solar System.
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gollark: They're big networks which are trained to detect patterns, sometimes very deep ones, in large amounts of data.
gollark: Current AI stuff doesn't have "minds" comparable to that of humans.
gollark: They don't really "think", or at least they don't really do goal-oriented behavior.
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