Cave of Stars - Couverture souple

Zebrowski, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061058068 ISBN 13 : 9780061058066

Editeur : Harper Voyager, 2000

Synopsis

Old Earth is gone. Humanity has been scattered to the stars. Some left their dying planet in spaceship arks, in search of new worlds to inhabit. Others, nanoengineered for near-immortality, explore the far reaches of interstellar space in gargantuan macrolife mobiles.

An earthlike human society endures on the einvironmentally volatile planet of Tau Ceti IV--a rigid community of the faithful that has declared evil the science that caused the homeworld's destruction. The Church is the absolute power here; obedience and belief the rule. But His Holiness Peter III, the New Vatican's most powerful figure, himself harbors doubts, engendered by his love for his unacknowledged and illegitimate rebel daughter Josepha. And suddenly there is another assault on his tottering faith--and on the sacred tradtitions he has devoted his life to uphold. For an emissary, Voss Rhazes, has arrived from one of old Earth's journeying mobiles--the first off-planet human visitor ever to Tau Ceti--bearing remarkable hated technology that could shred the fragile emotional fabric of a family...and bring devastating chaos to their world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

George Zebrowski's thirty-five books have been published in more than half a dozen languages. His most recent novels are Brute Orbits, The Killing Star, written with scientist and author Charles Pellegrino, and Stranger Suns, chosen as a New York Times Notable Book. Upcoming is Skylife (coedited with scientist-author Gregory Benford), an anthology chronicling this century's fascination with space habitats in story and science. Zebrowski's classic novel of space habitats, Macrolife, was chosen by Library Journal as one of its one hundred "must read" works of science fiction.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Old Earth is gone. Humanity has been scattered to the stars. Some left their dying planet in spaceship arks, in search of new worlds to inhabit. Others, nanoengineered for near-immortality, explore the far reaches of interstellar space in gargantuan macrolife mobiles.

An earthlike human society endures on the einvironmentally volatile planet of Tau Ceti IV--a rigid community of the faithful that has declared evil the science that caused the homeworld's destruction. The Church is the absolute power here; obedience and belief the rule. But His Holiness Peter III, the New Vatican's most powerful figure, himself harbors doubts, engendered by his love for his unacknowledged and illegitimate rebel daughter Josepha. And suddenly there is another assault on his tottering faith--and on the sacred tradtitions he has devoted his life to uphold. For an emissary, Voss Rhazes, has arrived from one of old Earth's journeying mobiles--the first off-planet human visitor ever to Tau Ceti--bearing remarkable hated technology that could shred the fragile emotional fabric of a family...and bring devastating chaos to their world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Voyager
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0061058068
• ISBN 13: 9780061058066
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible