<i>Extinction</i>: New Sci-Fi from Mark Alpert
Science Talk
Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2013
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 1:09.9 | posted on February 14, 2013. |
| 1:13.3 | I'm Steve Murski. |
| 1:14.9 | Mark Alpert is a former editor at Scientific American, who has gone on to become a best-selling science fiction writer. |
| 1:21.8 | His latest book following Final Theory and Omega Theory is Extinction. |
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| 1:40.1 | book? What's the basic plot here? Well, the book is a science thriller about brain machine |
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