內容簡介
內容簡介 From Nebula and Hugo Award-nominated Carolyn Ives Gilman comes Dark Orbit a compelling novel featuring alien contact mystery and murder Reports of a strange new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization When a team ofscientists is assembled to investigate this world exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate Thora was once a member of the interplanetary elite but since her prophetic delusions helped mobilize a revolt on Orem shes been banished to the farthest reaches of space because of the risk that her very presence could revive unrest Upon arrival the team finds an extraordinary crystalline planet laden with dark matter Then a crew member is murdered and Thora mysteriously disappears Thought to be uninhabited the planet is in fact home to a blind sentient species whose members navigate their world with a bizarre vocabulary and extrasensory perceptions Lost in the deep crevasses of the planet among these people Thora must battle her demons and learn to comprehend the native inhabitants in order to find her crewmates and warn them of an impending danger But her most difficult task may lie in persuading the crew that some powers lie beyond the boundaries of science -
作者介紹
作者介紹 HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul.