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Building Harlequin's Moonby Larry Niven, Brenda Cooper
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Book DescriptionNew York: Tor Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ not price clipped, no wear, binding is green cloth with gold lettering, pages are tight, text clean, 1st edition, book in very good condition! ; ; <div>The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that would limit intelligent technology. <br>But by some miscalculation they have landed in another solar system and must shape the gas giant planet Harlequin's moon, Selene, into a new, temporary home. Their only hope of ever reaching Ymir is to rebuild their store of antimatter by terraforming the moon. <br>Gabriel, the head terraformer, must lead this nearly impossible task, with all the wrong materials: the wrong ships and tools, and too few resources. His primary tools are the uneducated and nearly-illitera te children of the original colonists, born and bred to build Harlequin's moon into an antimatter factory. <br>Rachel Vanowen is one of these children. Basically a slave girl, she must do whatever the terraforming Council tells her. She knows that Council monitors her actions from a circling vessel above Selene's atmosphere, and is responsible for everything Rachel and her people know, as well as all the skills, food, and knowledge they have ever received. With no concept of the future and a life defined with duty, how will the children of Selene ever survive once the Council is through terraforming and have abandoned Selene for its ultimate goal of Ymir?<br></div> . Book summaryA marooned spaceship crew makes a desperate and ruthless decision with far-reaching repercussions in this hard SF saga. Bound for the distant planet Ymir, colony spaceship John Glenn is stranded with engine trouble in the wrong solar system. Over the next 60,000 years, the crew builds a moon, Selene, orbiting the gas giant planet of Harlequin, and populate the moon with their own children. These descendants, the Moon Born, are trained to manufacture the fuel that the John Glenn needs to continue its journey to Ymir. What the Moon Born do not know, however, is that the crew, or Earth Born, have no room on the ship for the Moon Born, and intend to leave them behind on Selene, which is incapable of supporting a permanent colony.Media Reviews"Fans of both hard and softer, psychological SF will welcome veteran Niven and newcomer Cooper's well-written tale....[A] rich story." -- Publishers Weekly Publisher NotesWhen the terraforming crew of the interstellar starship John Glenn accidentally lands on the giant gas planet of Harlequin, they are forced to shape a nearby moon into a temporary home, a situation that tests the leadership capabilities of the lead terraformer Gabriel and changes everything that slave girl Rachel Vanowen and her people have ever known. Other Recommended Books
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