**By the author of *The Forever War*: In the near future, an idealistic young student visiting Earth from an orbiting colony becomes ensnared in radical politics and a dark conspiracy of violent destruction** By the close of the twenty-first century, almost half a million souls have already abandon
Worlds: A Novel of the Near Future
โ Scribed by Joe Haldeman
- Publisher
- Orion;Gateway
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 178 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Towards the end of the twenty-first century 41 Worlds, small satellites with a total population of half a million, orbit the Earth, which has seen many changes, not least of which is a second revolution in America. Marianne O'Hara, a brilliant political sciences student, is from New New York, a hollowed out asteroid and the largest of the Worlds, but is to spend a year on Earth as a postgraduate student. Because the political relationship between the Worlds and Earth is complex and voltatile, Marianne unwittingly finds herself caught up with a group of fanatics determined on a third revolution in America - even if such a revolution could lead to the destruction of the Earth...
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