The Fleet of Stars

Book Details

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Author(s):

Poul Anderson

First Pub:

1997

Genre(s):

Hard Science Fiction; Science Fiction; Space Opera

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Internal ID:

14085

Series:

<- Harvest the Fire

Harvest of Stars*

#4 of 4

Harvest of Stars*

A science fiction series by Poul Anderson.

View this series in the book list

1) Harvest of Stars
2) The Stars are Also Fire
3) Harvest the Fire
4) The Fleet of Stars

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Last Sentence:

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Added: 20-Jun-2024

Last Updated: 20-Jun-2024

Publications

07-Dec-2021

Tantor Audio

Audiobook

Date Issued:

07-Dec-2021

Format:

Audiobook

Length:

15 hrs 8 min (447 pages)

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

43670

Publisher:

Tantor Audio

ISBN:

Unknown

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

James Fouhey - Narration

From audible.com:

The multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction delivers "an exciting culmination to an ambitious saga" (Publishers Weekly).

Far into the reaches of space, Anson Guthrie and a band of colonists have forged a new existence on Amaterasu not as physical beings but as downloaded consciousness watched over by the benevolent Life Mother. Yet as idyllic as their lives may be, back home on Earth the situation is growing grim.

Earth's inhabitants are now completely dependent - and so controlled - by an intelligent machine known as the Teramind. But the instinctual human desire to be free is not something the Teramind has included in its calculations. The seeds of rebellion are growing.

Suspecting a conspiracy to suppress humankind's last vestiges of freedom, Guthrie and his loyal companions make a dangerous journey back to Earth-risking everything to preserve humanity's independent destiny.

The thrilling conclusion to Anderson's four-volume, award-winning epic vision of mankind's evolution, begun in Harvest of Stars, "Fleet of Stars is a grand story that gets bigger and better with every page" (Larry Bond).

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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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