Exponential drift

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Exponentialdrift is a science fiction novel by Andreas Eschbach ( ISBN 3-404-14912-2 ), which was published in 2003 by Bastei Lübbe.

Development of the novel project

Originally it was written as a serial novel experiment from September 30, 2001 to July 14, 2002 each week and published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . The experimental character is expressed in the fact that the plot should always relate to current events and should also be influenced by them. This project has been expressly from FAZ - co-editor Frank Schirrmacher supported.

The history

Bernhard Abel wakes up from a long-standing coma in a nursing ward . But he does not lose the feeling that he is not himself. He comes to believe that he is really an alien in Abel's body. He is being followed by a strange person and his colleagues seem to be hiding something. Is it all just delusions? But what does Peter Eisenhardt (from Eschbach's novel Das Jesus Video ) have to do with the whole thing?

With the eponymous word he invented, the author describes the final impact of population growth on earth. He starts from the assumption that only humans have the disposition to multiply in an uncontrolled manner and do this constantly. As soon as mankind has found the technology to colonize other planets, it will continue to multiply on these inexorably. The extraterrestrials assume in the plot of the book that this development is imminent. They forecast the colonization of all planets in the Milky Way by humans in 3225 , and even the colonization of the entire universe in 4395. Therefore, they make a resolution to destroy humanity before that happens.

Others

In the afterword of the book version, the author describes the original idea for a serial novel. He also mentions that a few days before he was contacted for this book, his book One Trillion Dollars was published and that he expected a great response from bookstores and readers, although it did not appear at first. The book hit bookstores on September 11, 2001 .

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