George Zebrowski

Cave of Stars (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 earth-like human society endures on the environmentally 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 traditions 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781497623224
• Artikelnr.: 44326644

Autorenporträt

George Zebrowski's more than forty books include novels, short fiction collections, anthologies, and a collection of essays. His short fiction, articles, and essays have appeared in Omnimagazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, Amazing Stories,the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone, Science Fiction Age, Nature, the Bertrand Russell Society News, and many other publications. "Heathen God" was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1972. Brute Orbits (1998), an uncompromising novel about the future of the penal system, was honored with the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and Stranger Suns (1991) was a New York Times Notable Book.