The Children Star - Hardcover

Slonczewski, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312867166 ISBN 13: 9780312867164

Verlag: Tor Books, 1998

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Book by Slonczewski Joan

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"The world-building is magnificently detailed; the characters are done with deftness and wit."--"Chicago Sun-Times" on "Daughter of Elysium" "By the time the conflict she introduces in Part One has moved to center stage, you not only know the antagonist intimately, you care passionately about the outcome."--"New York Times Book Review "on "A Door Into Ocean" "Slonczewski, a biologist, effectively describes a scary new world, filled with quaint-talking humans and primitive ways, whose fate is not resolved until a young female embarks on a quest that reveals the true nature of the aliens."--"The Wall Street Journal "on "The Wall Around Eden "

Reseña del editor:

The planet of Prokaryon is harsh and alien, uninhabitable for normal humans - accessible only to those willing to be genetically altered, a long and painful process. This marks it as the perfect site for a colony of orphans. Founded by Brother Rod and his fellow Spirit Brethren, the colony offers them a chance to forge a new home in relative peace. But all is not as it seems on Prokaryon. Sudden, fortuitous rainstorms quench forest fires and then rapidly dissipate. The entire planet's ecosystem is highly structured - too structured to have been formed by the randomness of nature. But decades of research have turned up no real evidence of any "hidden masters" of Prokaryon. So when Proteus Unlimited, a greedy interstellar corporation, plans to terraform Prokaryon, first mining it and then making it habitable by normal humans, thereby netting huge profits, the search for native intelligent life becomes a frantic race against time. Lost in this shuffle of bureaucracy and greed is this simple colony of orphans, whose settlement will be wiped out if the entire surface of the planet is boiled off.

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• Verlag: Tor Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312867166
• ISBN 13: 9780312867164
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352