Earth

Resource Information

The work Earth represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Earth

Statement of responsibility

Ben Bova

Creator

• Bova, Ben, 1932-

Author

• Bova, Ben, 1932-

Subject

• Science fiction
• Exile (Punishment) -- Fiction
• Space colonies -- Fiction
• Life on other planets -- Fiction
• Space operas (Fiction)
• Electromagnetic waves -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Science fiction
• Space operas (Fiction)

Language

eng

Summary

A wave of lethal gamma radiation is expanding from the core of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light, killing everything in its path. The countdown to when the death wave will reach Earth and the rest of the solar system is at two thousand years. Humans were helped by the Predecessors, who provided shielding generators that can protect the solar system. In return, the Predecessors asked humankind's help to save other intelligent species that are in danger of being annihilated. But what of Earth? With the Death Wave no longer a threat to humanity, humans have spread out and colonized all the worlds of the solar system. The technology of the Predecessors has made Earth a paradise, at least on the surface. But a policy of exiling discontent young people to the outer planets and asteroid mines has led to a deep divide between the new worlds and the homeworld, and those tensions are about to explode into open war

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3552.O84

LC item number

E37 2019

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult