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Rescued from Paradise
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780595166183
ISBN: 0595166180
Label: Backinprint.com
Manufacturer: Backinprint.com
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 356
Publication Date: 2001-01
Publisher: Backinprint.com
Studio: Backinprint.com
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Rescued From Paradise is the fourth of four sequels to the science fiction novel Rocheworld by Robert L. Forward (Baen Books, New York, 1990). The other sequels are: Return to Rocheworld, Ocean Under the Ice and Marooned on Eden. In Rescued From Paradise , the children of the human explorers marooned decades ago on the Earth-like moon, “Eden,” in the Barnard Star System, have to decide whether to stay on their idyllic birthplace with the friendly jelly-blob “flouwen” and the slow-moving tree-like “jollys”, or to return to compete in the fast-paced combined human/robot civilization of the Solar System.
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One of the better ones in the series. Complete with births, deaths, tidal waves, lava flows, specs on 2 new spaceship designs, a new alien race, learning to communicate with said race, and dealing with rescue/replacement after a long enough time for your kids to have kids. We even get a couple of chapters from the flowen perspective and another couple from the new alien perspective. Sounds packed? It is, but it wraps it all up well with a look at how humans might start using a whole new solar ... Read More
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