Dead lines
By: Greg Bear.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Future life -- Fiction; Cellular telephones -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Deadlines
Description: When a new information channel that enables the transmission of unprecedented volumes of data is developed, the bandwidth's users begin having strange experiences that lead to the realization that it might be a pathway to the spirit realm.
Table of contents: title: For the last two years, Peter Russell has mourned the death of one of his twin daughters--who was just ten when she was murdered. Recent news of his best friend’s fatal heart attack has now come as another devastating blow. Divorced, despondent, and going nowhere in his career, Peter fears his life is circling the drain. Then Trans comes along. The brainchild of an upstart telecom company, Trans is (as its name suggests) a transcendent marvel: a sleek, handheld interpersonal communication device capable of flawless operation anywhere in the world, at any time. 'A cell phone, but no'--transmitting with crystal clarity across a newly discovered, never-utilized bandwidth . . . and poised to spark a new-technology revolution. When its creators offer Peter a position on their team, it should be a golden opportunity for him. If only he wasn’t seemingly going mad.; title: Everywhere Peter turns, inexplicable apparitions are walking before him or reaching out in torment. After a chilling encounter with his own lost child he begins to grasp the terrifying truth: Trans is a Pandora's box that has tapped into a frequency not of this world . . . but of the next. And now, via this open channel to oblivion, the dead have gained access to the living. For Peter, and for humankind,a long, shadowy night of the soul has descended, bringing with it the stuff of a horrifying nightmare from which they may never awaken.