The Spaceman - Deague, Terry
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What will the next pandemic look like? And must it be viral in nature? The author's conjecture, in his latest novel, The Spaceman, is that it will be different this time around. The Space is a patch of turf in the Australian Alps. Should a person or any other living creature enter this Space, they cannot leave except as a corpse. So, if they want to continue living, they must accept indefinite confinement. Ray Cromwell, picture framer, is the first person to be trapped in this way. He is the world's first Spaceman. Because evidence suggests The Space has a propensity to replicate and spread…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
What will the next pandemic look like? And must it be viral in nature? The author's conjecture, in his latest novel, The Spaceman, is that it will be different this time around. The Space is a patch of turf in the Australian Alps. Should a person or any other living creature enter this Space, they cannot leave except as a corpse. So, if they want to continue living, they must accept indefinite confinement. Ray Cromwell, picture framer, is the first person to be trapped in this way. He is the world's first Spaceman. Because evidence suggests The Space has a propensity to replicate and spread like a virus, the Government feels an obligation to deal promptly with the situation. But - no surprises - its response is political, opportunistic, and self-seeking. Tania Chalmond, Ray's business partner and eventual lover, teams up with Marius Strangio, the guy on the ground charged with administering the Government's response. Their mission is to secure Ray's release, despite their having no idea where the threat is coming from or what the rules of play are. They succeed after a fashion. They get Ray out alive. But there are too many bad players in this game, and celebrations prove to be premature ...
Autorenporträt
The author's main paper qualification is a PhD in photonuclear physics, i.e. nuclear reactions induced by photons, from the University of Melbourne. He has necessarily written a number of scientific papers in this field.In the 1970s, he wrote a review paper on the subject of Global Atmospheric Consequences of the Combustion of Fossil Fuels, which (as might be imagined) was ground breaking at the time.His literary accomplishments are a short story published in the Australian literary journal Tabloid Story in the 1970s, a screenplay funded by Film Victoria in the 1980s but never produced, and a novel Where Pademelons Play published in 2018.The Spaceman is his second novel.