The Jonah kit
The Jonah kitIan Watson

The Jonah kit (1975)

Ian Watson

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When a young Russian boy disappears from a top-secret research establishment, and turns up in Tokyo, he presents a major problem for American security officials. The youth appears to be part of a sophisticated experiment--and to have the mind of a supposedly dead astronaut perfectly imprinted on his own. And, the boy claims the tests have been extended to a whale. As these strange events unfold, other cataclysmic events begin to occur too: a groundbreaking Nobel Prize winner proves that what we perceive as the universe is nothing more than a ghost of the real thing. Then the whales begin singing their death-mantra throughout the world's oceans.

ISBN:
9780575050020
Length:
221 pages

Genres: science fiction

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what I really loved about this book when I first read it was that apart from the brilliant ideas and they are absolutely fantastic and Ian really amazing ideas man was that all the characters I hated them all they were all loathsome and it was very innovating but at the same time really refreshing because what it meant is that you know you didn't want to root for any of them so you get got a kind of objectivity about it

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