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Frank Schätzing
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Frank Schätzing (born May 28, 1957) is a German writer, mostly known for his best-selling science fiction novel The Swarm (2004).
Life[]
Schätzing was born in Cologne and studied communication studies; he later ran his own company, an advertising agency named INTEVI, in Cologne. Schätzing became a writer in 1990, and penned several novellas and satires. His first published novel was the historical Tod und Teufel (Death and the Devil) in 1995, and in 2000 his thrillerLautlos. Schätzing achieved his greatest success in 2004 with the science fiction thriller The Swarm.
Works[]
Books[]
- Death and the Devil (original title: Tod und Teufel, 1995)
- Mordshunger, 1996 (German screen adaptation: Mordshunger)
- Die dunkle Seite (1997)
- Keine Angst (1999)
- Lautlos (2000), Template:ISBN
- The Swarm (original title: Der Schwarm, 2004)
- Nachrichten aus einem unbekannten Universum (2006)
- Die tollkühnen Abenteuer der Ducks auf hoher See (ed.) (2006), Template:ISBN
- [Limit] (2009)
- Breaking News (2014)
- Die Tyrannei des Schmetterlings (2018)
Audiobooks[]
- Tod und Teufel (1999/2003)
- Keine Angst (2001)
- Der Schwarm (2004)
- Nachrichten aus einem unbekannten Universum (2006)
Prizes[]
External links[]
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極限
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黒のトイフェル
2 primary works • 2 total works
The Swarm (Schätzing novel)
2004 science fiction novel by Frank Schätzing
The Swarm (German: Der Schwarm) is a science fictionnovel by German author Frank Schätzing. It was first published in 2004 and soon became a bestseller.
Plot
The book follows an ensemble of protagonists who are investigating what at first appear to be freak events related to the world's oceans. A new species of marine worm works together with bacteria to destabilize the continental shelf, causing a megatsunami which kills millions and severely damages the coastal infrastructure. Whales and sea-borne mussels band together to attack and incapacitate a commercial freighter. Swimmers are driven from the coast by sharks and venomous jellyfish. Commercial ships are attacked and sometimes destroyed. France sees an outbreak of an epidemic caused by contaminated lobsters.
When it becomes clear that all those events are related, an international scientific task force is created under the lead of the United States, led by Lieutenant General Judith Li, a close friend and adviser to the President. Sigur Johanson, a marine biologist working at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, finally announces his hypothesis: the phenomena are intentional attacks by an unknown sentient species from the depths of the oceans. Johanson calls them "yrr", after three letters he typed randomly on his computer. The goal of the yrr is to eliminate the human race, which is devastating the Earth's oceans.
General Li and a small group of scientists take to the sea on the helicopter carrier USS Independence in an attempt to find the yrr and make contact with them. They discover that the yrr are single-cell organisms that operate in swarms, controlled by a single hive-mind. The scientists have some success in investigating the yrr and make limited contact. The attacks do not cease.
Johanson finds out that one of the scientists has been working on a modified pheromone to eradicate the yrr co