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The Stars are Also Fire

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1994
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A science fiction series by Poul Anderson.

1) Harvest of Stars
2) The Stars are Also Fire
3) Harvest the Fire
4) The Fleet of Stars
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Added: 20-Jun-2024
Last Updated: 20-Jun-2024

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 12-Oct-2021
Tantor Audio
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Date Issued:
12-Oct-2021
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$22.57
Length:
21 hrs 9 min (661 pages)
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Internal ID:
43668
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ISBN:
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Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
James Fouhey  - Narration
From audible.com:

Humans and their genetically altered descendants struggle to find their place in a universe controlled by a benevolent artificial intelligence in this brilliant classic of future speculation.

On a far-future Earth, a linked system of artificial intelligences called the cybercosm runs the planet and the universe far more efficiently than any flesh and blood ruler ever could, in essence rendering the human race obsolete. On the Earth's moon, genetically engineered Lunarians carrying the DNA of Dagney Beynac - a descendant of the legendary Anton Guthrie, founder of the powerful and visionary Fireball Enterprises - struggle to preserve their lives, their freedom, and their satellite's resources in the face of threats posed by encroaching humans and controlling machines.

Over a span of five centuries, tensions have increased in the wake of the political and technological revolutions that reshaped their universe. And suddenly radical change is in the offing once more, as a secret kept hidden since the earliest days of Lunar colonization is about to be revealed - one that could effectively shut down the cybercosm and plunge the universe into chaos.
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Author(s)

 Poul Anderson
Birth: 25 Nov 1926 Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 31 Jul 2001 Orinda, California, USA

Notes:
From "About Poul Anderson" in the 1985 edition of Brain Wave:

What would happen if...

Those are magic words, and the writer who chooses to follow out their intention finds himself suddenly released, in a world unbounded by here and now and open to the farthest reaches of logic and imagination.  What would happen if philosophers were kings, if men could live forever, if the human race could suddenly surmount the limits of its present intelligence?

Such a train of thought has been the starting point for some of the most fascinating works of imaginative fiction, and it is to this class of informed speculation that BRAIN WAVE belongs.  Poul Anderson (the pronunciation lies midway between "pole" and "powl") is, like many of the best writers in science fiction, a graduate physicist.  (The physical sciences seem to be producing as many authors as medicine did a generation ago.)  As such, he brings to fiction that sense of the possible that the widening horizon of science often bestows.

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