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Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters' The Thing. Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one of them has received. One is practical and open. The other surly, superior and obsessed with reading one book - by the philosopher Kant. As a storm brews and they lose contact with the outside world they debate Kant, reality and the emptiness of the universe. ...

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The Thing Itself 2016, Gollancz, London

ISBN-13: 9780575127739

Mass-market paperback

The Thing Itself 2015, Gollancz, London

ISBN-13: 9780575127722

Paperback