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001 ocm39783505
003 OCoLC
005 20160131224320.0
008 980901t19981997nyu 000 1 eng d
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050 14 $aPS3552.A778$bA75 1998
082 04 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aBarton, William,$d1950-
245 10 $aAlpha centauri /$cWilliam Barton and Michael Capobianco.
260 $aNew York :$bAvon Eos,$c1998, ℗♭1997.
300 $a438 pages ;$c18 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $aThe word in the year 2239 is that the human race is doomed. With the Earth groaning beneath the weight of 200 billion people and with the limit of derivable scientific knowledge frighteningly close at hand, scientists believe the human race will crash, burn and vanish by the end of the twenty-third century. The last hope of humanity travels with Captain Virginia Vonzell Qing-an, her androgynous lover, and eleven other crew members aboard Earth's first starship, Mother Night, on a colonizing mission to Alpha Centauri - the closest, most likely place to find worlds suitable for human habitation. It is the adventure of a lifetime, but plagued from the onset by programming errors, structural damage and irresponsible death. But a different kind of plague could doom the assignment and, ultimately, the civilization that conceived it. A terrorist group, Indigo, has infiltrated the ship - single-minded true believers convinced that the only cure for their world's population problems is rampant, viral-induced, sexually transmitted sterilization. And the stakes are about to reach astronomical proportions. Because an artifact exists on a rocky moon called Atalanta, an impossibly ancient remnant of an alien race that offers possible solutions to humanity's gravest dilemma - and a hope and knowledge beyond present mortal comprehension --but only if Mother Night's besieged mission can somehow, miraculously, be salvaged.
650 0 $aOverpopulation$vFiction.
650 0 $aSpace flight$vFiction.
650 0 $aInterstellar travel$vFiction.
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650 7 $aOverpopulation.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01049361
650 7 $aSpace flight.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01127676
655 7 $aFiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423787
655 7 $aScience fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aAdventure fiction.$2gsafd
700 1 $aCapobianco, Michael,$d1950-
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948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN PMR - 32 OTHER HOLDINGS