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Black Star Rising

64.3% complete
1985
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Castor
8 chapters
Tsoong Delilah
5 chapters
Jupe
3 chapters
Manyface
3 chapters
Castor
6 chapters
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13552
No series
Copyright © 1985 by Frederik Pohl
No dedication.
Castor was halfway across the paddy, part of the long line of farm workers, when he stepped on the dead man's head.
May contain spoilers
Over her shoulder she said, "Why, then we deserve what we get, don't we?"
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Added: 13-Feb-2023
Last Updated: 18-Feb-2023

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 01-Apr-1986
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Apr-1986
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$4.75
Pages*:
293
Internal ID:
13066
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-345-31902-8
ISBN-13:
978-0-345-31902-9
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Michael Whelan  - Cover Artist
"TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER, IF YOU CAN..."


When a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and underscore its seriousness, you would expect the President to talk.

Problem is, in the late twenty-first century, there is no President - not even a United States.  In fact, in this world of the future, China rules the Americas; and, to most people, "USA" and "USSR" are just quaint abbreviations in historical dictionaries.

Then the aliens prove unreasonable about accepting substitutes... so one Anglo rice-cultivator from the Heavenly Grain Collective Farm - near Biloxi, Mississippi - is forced to begin an adventure that will take him from peasant to President, from Pettyman to Spaceman.

FIRST PAPERBACK PUBLICATION
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Notes and Comments:
First Hardcover Edition: May 1985
First Paperback Edition: April 1986

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Author(s)

Frederik Pohl  
Birth: 26 Nov 1919 Brooklyn, NY, USA
Death: 02 Sep 2013 Palatine, IL, USA

Notes:
From the "About the Author" page in "The Siege of Eternity":

A mutliple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, Frederik Pohl has done just about everything one can do in the science-fiction field.  His most famous work is undoubtedly the novel Gateway, which won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards for best SF novel.  Man Plus won the Nebula Award.  His mature work is marked by a serious intellectual agenda and strongly held sociopolitical beliefs, without sacrificing narrative drive.  In addition to his successful solo fiction, Pohl has collaborated successfully with a variety of writers, including C. M. Kornbluth and Jack Williamson.  A Pohl/Kornbluth collabortation, The Space Merchants, is a long-time classic of satiric science fiction.  The Starchild Trilogy with Williamson is one of the more notable collaborations in the field.  Pohl has been a magazine editor in the field since he was very young, piloting World of If to three successive Hugos for Best Magazine.  He also has edited original-story anthologies, including the early and notable Star series of the early 1950s.  He has at various times been a literary agent, and editor of lines of science fiction books, and a president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.  For a number of years he has been active in the World SF movement.  He and his wife, Elizabeth Anne Hull, a prominent academic active in the Science Fiction Research Association, live outside Chicago, Illinois.

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  • I try to maintain page numbers for audiobooks even though obviously there aren't any. I do this to keep track of pages read and I try to use the Kindle version page numbers for this.
  • Synopses marked with an asterisk (*) were generated by an AI. There aren't a lot since this is an iffy way to do it - AI seems to make stuff up.
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  • Page numbers on this site are for the end of the main story. I normally do not include appendices, extra material, and other miscellaneous stuff at the end of the book in the page count.






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