2855 aa3bb609-badf-4fb2-9312-77588db7d728 The Nano Flower Peter F. Hamilton calibre (2.43.0) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 1995-03-02T00:00:00+00:00 SUMMARY: Mandel returns in a spectacular new adventure that blows open the possibilities of the next century.Julia Evans: billionairess, owner of Event Horizon, for fifteen years undisputed power behind the world's economic renaissance. And in trouble.With her computer-genius husband missing and rival companies suddenly claiming to have acquired a technology impossibly superior to anything on Earth, Julia has no time to notice an anonymously delivered flower. But this flower has genes millions of years in advance of terrestrial DNA.Is it a cryptic alien message or a poignant farewell from her husband? Pan Books http://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?44511 en bsfa award for best novel finalist Novel first contact _isfdb Nomination of 1995 BSFA Award for Best Novel