Four Hundred Billion Stars series by Paul J. McAuley (Books 1-3)
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Overview: Paul McAuley is a former research scientist at Oxford University and UCLA,and a former lecturer in botany at St. Andrews University. This is his debutthriller and marks the arrival of a major British talent in this field. Heis available for interview and comment, particularly in regard to thedangers of biotechnology and the interface of profit and science.
Paul McAuley's first novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars, won the Philip KDick Memorial Award, and his most recent novel, Fairyland, won the 1995Arthur C Clarke Award for best SF novel published in Britain and the John WCampbell Award for best novel. In 1995 his short story 'The Temptation of DrStein' won the British Fantasy Award, and in 1996 his novel Pasquale's Angel won the Sidewise Award for Best Long Form Alternate History fiction.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Four Hundred Billion Stars
Dorothy Yoshida is a telepath, and a really rather good one at that. She's also a scientist, and when a small planet begins to manifest some unusual signs she is sent to investigate. The planet is more than it seems, and on further investigation the scientists begin to suspect it has been artificially altered. But despite their suspicions the only life they can detect is on the surface, none of which has advanced far above the level of animals. And despite the hopes of mankind to find something which will help them in a burgeoning war against other species, there seems to be nothing there to aid them. With Dorothy's arrival, however, they are in for some surprising discoveries.
Secret Harmonies
Like Earth before the Age of Waste, the planet Elysium has boundless oceans, clean skies, lush forests and fertile plains; its primitive aborigines seem harmless.
Yet all is not well in Paradise. Citizens descended from the first colonists benefit from the new technologies brought from Earth, but ruthlessly suppress the expansionist plans of the new settlers. Richard Florey knows at first hand the prejudice against his people; so does Miguel Lucas, a settler ‘gone dingo’, living wild and free despite the laws of the city.
As the iron grip of the city tightens, so the two men find themselves at the heart of a revolution, upon which hangs the future of both humans and aliens.
Eternal Light
In the aftermath of an interstellar war an enigmatic star is discovered, travelling towards the Solar System from the galactic core. Its appearance adds a new and dangerous factor in the turbulent politics of the inhabited worlds as the rival factions - the power-holders of the Reunited Nations, the rebels who secretly oppose their power, and the Religious Witnesses - all see advantages to be gained.
But what awesome technology started the star on its journey half a million years ago - and why?
From the endless carnival on Titan to an earth ruled by the fanatic Witnesses; from the depths of space and the galactic core to the border between reality and the manifold infinity between universes, Eternal Light is huge in scope, breathtaking in ideas and packed with life, character, atmosphere and incident.
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Requirements: ePUB Reader, 2.2 MB
Overview: Paul McAuley is a former research scientist at Oxford University and UCLA,and a former lecturer in botany at St. Andrews University. This is his debutthriller and marks the arrival of a major British talent in this field. Heis available for interview and comment, particularly in regard to thedangers of biotechnology and the interface of profit and science.
Paul McAuley's first novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars, won the Philip KDick Memorial Award, and his most recent novel, Fairyland, won the 1995Arthur C Clarke Award for best SF novel published in Britain and the John WCampbell Award for best novel. In 1995 his short story 'The Temptation of DrStein' won the British Fantasy Award, and in 1996 his novel Pasquale's Angel won the Sidewise Award for Best Long Form Alternate History fiction.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Four Hundred Billion Stars
Dorothy Yoshida is a telepath, and a really rather good one at that. She's also a scientist, and when a small planet begins to manifest some unusual signs she is sent to investigate. The planet is more than it seems, and on further investigation the scientists begin to suspect it has been artificially altered. But despite their suspicions the only life they can detect is on the surface, none of which has advanced far above the level of animals. And despite the hopes of mankind to find something which will help them in a burgeoning war against other species, there seems to be nothing there to aid them. With Dorothy's arrival, however, they are in for some surprising discoveries.
Secret Harmonies
Like Earth before the Age of Waste, the planet Elysium has boundless oceans, clean skies, lush forests and fertile plains; its primitive aborigines seem harmless.
Yet all is not well in Paradise. Citizens descended from the first colonists benefit from the new technologies brought from Earth, but ruthlessly suppress the expansionist plans of the new settlers. Richard Florey knows at first hand the prejudice against his people; so does Miguel Lucas, a settler ‘gone dingo’, living wild and free despite the laws of the city.
As the iron grip of the city tightens, so the two men find themselves at the heart of a revolution, upon which hangs the future of both humans and aliens.
Eternal Light
In the aftermath of an interstellar war an enigmatic star is discovered, travelling towards the Solar System from the galactic core. Its appearance adds a new and dangerous factor in the turbulent politics of the inhabited worlds as the rival factions - the power-holders of the Reunited Nations, the rebels who secretly oppose their power, and the Religious Witnesses - all see advantages to be gained.
But what awesome technology started the star on its journey half a million years ago - and why?
From the endless carnival on Titan to an earth ruled by the fanatic Witnesses; from the depths of space and the galactic core to the border between reality and the manifold infinity between universes, Eternal Light is huge in scope, breathtaking in ideas and packed with life, character, atmosphere and incident.
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