Giancarlo Genta
Giancarlo Genta is an expert in spaceflight technology who holds degrees in Aeronautic Engineering and Space Engineering (his thesis was on electric propulsion orbital transfers). Until 1996 he was head of the Mechanics Department of the Politecnico (Technical University) of Turin, Italy. He is director of the Italian SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) study center and is a full member of the International Academy of Astronautics.
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A Man from Planet Earth
- By: Giancarlo Genta
- Narrator: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.07(25 ratings)
Sometime in the not-too-distant future … unbeknownst to Earth, the Galaxy is home to a number of spacefaring societies. This confederation enforces a strict protocol forbidding any contact with civilizations that have not yet achieved both a substantial spacefaring capability and sufficient maturity to control the technology explosion before triggering their own extinction.
While this policy is intended to only bring in peaceful new members, matters change entirely when the confederation is threatened by some unknown entity–is the menace real or imagined? The confederation decides to break with the rules and sends a delegate to Earth to hire one of the supposedly belligerent Earthlings to investigate and to revive the confederation’s long-unused starfleet. The Earthman agrees, but demands a high price: should he succeed, the confederation will have to accept Earth as a new member. As the threat becomes ever more acute, the question soon becomes which mission will prove harder–saving the confederation or convincing it to accept the deal!
The extensive appendix, written in nontechnical language, reviews the scientific and technological topics underlying the plot–ranging from the Fermi Paradox, space travel, and artificial/collective intelligence to theories on possible universal convergences in technological and biological development.
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- By: Giancarlo Genta
- Narrator: Andrew Fallaize
- Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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2.89(23 ratings)
The twenty-fourth century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond. While no alien forms of life have yet been encountered in this expansion into space, colonists suddenly encounter machines of alien origin–huge robots able to reproduce themselves. Called replicators by the colonists, they seem to have but a single goal: to destroy all organic life they come in contact with.
Since the colonial governments have no means to fight this menace directly, they instead promise huge rewards to whoever destroys a replicator. As a result, the frontier attracts a new kind of adventurer, the Hunters, who work to find and destroy the replicators. Mike Edwards, a skilled young maintenance technician and robotics expert at a faraway outpost, will not only become one of them–but be the very first one to unlock the secret behind the replicators’ origin and mission.
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