num_pages: 285
description: The Sea Venture, CV for short, is the largest ocean-going vessel ever built; not a ship, but a prototype sea habitat. On board CV is a small city of permanent inhabitants, a scientific research station studying the ocean floor, the crew, and about a thousand paying passengers—Sea Venture is a microcosm of the world.Dr. Wallace McNulty expects his job as CV’s chief medical officer to be an easy berth. For Emily and Jim Woodruff, CV may be their new home. Paul Newland is aboard to discover whether CV really is a threat to his dream of orbital space colonies; and for the man hired to assassinate Newland, CV is a challenge to his skill at the hunt.But there is one more thing aboard Sea Venture. It is not human; it is not even of Earthly origin. It is sweeping like a firestorm through the passengers and crew, leaving hundreds of men and women collapsed into coma. It spreads like no epidemic Dr. McNulty has ever heard of—moving from one person to another, one at a time, almost as if it were not a disease and all, but an intelligence…And of what importance are the hopes and dreams, fears and schemes of the people of Sea Venture when they are threatened by a force that could destroy all of human civilization?
language: English
title: CV
titlecomplete: CV
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 61
series: CV
publisher: Tor Books