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The Jonah kit

Ian Watson

1975192 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1975
first published
  • 1975Gollancz · 221 pages · ENGISBN 9780575019386
  • 1975Scribner · 221 pages · ENGISBN 9780684146003
  • 1977Panther · 192 pagesISBN 9780586043851
  • 1991VGSF · 221 pages · ENGISBN 9780575050020
  • 2002Gollancz · 221 pages · ENGISBN 9780575073890

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.

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