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Colony
- Author
- Ben Bova
- Narrator
- Kristoffer Tabori
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 15 September 2013
- Run Time
- 16 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction
What to expect
In the future, everything is different—but nothing has changed.
"The Earth has been poisoned by pollution, choked by overpopulation, and ravaged by the mindless greed of power-hungry corporations. A fragile peace is threatened by landless revolutionaries, and global anarchy seems imminent.Yet a single ray of hope remains…"
Island One is a celestial utopia, and David Adams is its most perfect creation—a man with a brain as advanced as any computer and a body free of human frailties. But David is a prisoner—a captive of the colony that created him—destined to spend the days of his life in an island-sized cylinder that circles a doomed and desperate home planet. Thousands of miles below him, a world trembles; its people cringe in terror and despair in anticipation of an impending apocalypse. And fate has cast one extraordinary human in the role of savior. For David Adams has a plan—one that will ultimately ensure the salvation of his species … or its annihilation.
Critics Review
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“A beautiful story full of prophetic visions.”
Frank Herbert, New York Times bestselling author
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“Moves well, the characters are solid and believable, and it holds its own as a nice piece of ‘hard’ science fiction.”
SFSite.com
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Details
- Author
- Ben Bova
- Narrator
- Kristoffer Tabori
- Duration
- 16 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 September 2013
- ISBN
- 9781483061290
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Science fiction
Synopsis
In the future, everything is different—but nothing has changed."The Earth has been poisoned by pollution, choked by overpopulation, and ravaged by the mindless greed of power-hungry corporations. A fragile peace is threatened by landless revolutionaries, and global anarchy seems imminent.Yet a single ray of hope remains…"Island One is a celestial utopia, and David Adams is its most perfect creation—a man with a brain as advanced as any computer and a body free of human frailties. But David is a prisoner—a captive of the colony that created him—destined to spend the days of his life in an island-sized cylinder that circles a doomed and desperate home planet. Thousands of miles below him, a world trembles; its people cringe in terror and despair in anticipation of an impending apocalypse. And fate has cast one extraordinary human in the role of savior. For David Adams has a plan—one that will ultimately ensure the salvation of his species … or its annihilation.
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