The Human Family - Pearl, Maxwell
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Eighty years have passed since the galactic community cut off humans and exiled them from Earth. Beatrice, brave member of the original Michaelson clan, one of the only Terrans to visit the Kinder home planet of Hilcyon, has finally died. As the now large and world-spanning family gathers to celebrate her life, cracks in the unity of their family and the human community on Casiti and New Earth begin to show. They break wide open when a lone engineer on Hilcyon reaches out because the Kinder are about to all die of starvation. A new generation of Michaelsons step in to help the Kinder and reconnect the fragments of the human family.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Eighty years have passed since the galactic community cut off humans and exiled them from Earth. Beatrice, brave member of the original Michaelson clan, one of the only Terrans to visit the Kinder home planet of Hilcyon, has finally died. As the now large and world-spanning family gathers to celebrate her life, cracks in the unity of their family and the human community on Casiti and New Earth begin to show. They break wide open when a lone engineer on Hilcyon reaches out because the Kinder are about to all die of starvation. A new generation of Michaelsons step in to help the Kinder and reconnect the fragments of the human family.
Autorenporträt
Maxwell Pearl received his B.A. in Natural Science and Mathematics from Bennington College and his Ph.D. in Biology from Case Western Reserve University. Max taught at Hampshire College from 1989 through 1999. Max was a nationally recognized leader in the nonprofit technology field. Max worked with organizations focused on women's rights, human rights, the environment, and internet freedom.Max is a long-time practitioner of contemplative spirituality, and has a Certificate of Theological Studies from Pacific School of Religion, in Berkeley. Max is a multi-genre writer and has written many articles and reports for scholarly journals and educational and nonprofit audiences. Max has also published poetry and creative nonfiction. Max's big writing love is science fiction. He has been an avid reader and fan of science fiction and fantasy since he first read "A Wrinkle in Time" as a child. He has been writing science fiction since 2006. Because Max is a polymath, his interests span a wide range of topics, including science, technology, religion and spirituality, philosophy, history, culture, politics, race, gender, and sexuality, and he brings this to his stories. He specializes in stories of culture clash and/or first contact, and his work has numerous strong female protagonists and characters and many diverse characters.Max lives in Sonoma County with his partner and their three wonderful critters.