When All Else Fails - Couverture souple

Libes, Howard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0692924353 ISBN 13 : 9780692924358

Editeur : Happy Mistake Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

As the door slid open to the high-security SEEDER Journal section of the Royal Library, Professor Yor Vanderlord recalled how his great-grandfather Yorlik’s words led him to this moment.Over a century and a half ago, planet Koda’s scientists predicted an environmental crisis threatening to annihilate the humanoid population so the global government developed the SEEDER program, launching deep-space missions to discover habitable worlds. When no livable planet was found, the SEEDER program was scrapped and the DOME project was initiated. The global economy became focused on placing domes over only the most prominent cities to insure a portion of the population’s survival.That’s when Yorlik Vanderlord (aka Yorlik the Great), who was thought lost in space, returned from his century-long SEEDER mission, but the details of his voyage were shrouded in mystery and never told. On his great-grandfather’s deathbed, eight-year-old Yor sat beside him and promised to uncover his past, and the old man whispered in his ear, “Always remember, lies can be just as powerful as the truth.”What did those cryptic words mean? What happened on his great-grandfather’s epic voyage?In the 16 years that followed, Yor climbed the ladder at the Royal University from undergraduate to professor faster than anyone in Koda’s planetary history. He became the planet’s foremost authority and wrote the best-selling historical book on the SEEDER program, "Power Over the Future," and he began restoring Yorlik the Great’s spaceship. With all this preparation, Yor petitioned the government for permission to read a portion of his great-grandfather’s SEEDER Journal to include in the ship’s unveiling speech at a planetary celebration.Now, as Yor entered the library, he was more determined than ever to discover the truth even if it meant heading out into space himself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Howard Libes has been a writer for more than 30 years and is a graduate of the University of Oregon Creative Writing Program. He edited the 2,300-page manuscript of If They Move ... Kill’em: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah by David Weddle (Atlantic/Grove Press) and worked as a collaborator—writer and interviewer— on Among the Mansions of Eden: Tales of Love, Lust, and Land in Beverly Hills by David Weddle (William Morrow/ HarperCollins). He has been a freelance writer for many publications, including Los Angeles Times Magazine. Currently, he is tapping into his lifelong obsession with science fiction and writing the SEEDER series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Happy Mistake Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0692924353
• ISBN 13: 9780692924358
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
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