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LEADER: 02259cam a2200289 a 4500
001 2009020754
003 DLC
005 20101013082100.0
008 090519s2009 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2009020754
020 $a9781591027812 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a1591027810 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn318873014
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dBTCTA$dOCO$dCDX$dABG$dYDXCP$dUBY$dVUE$dDLC
050 00 $aPR6063.C29$bQ54 2009
100 1 $aMcAuley, Paul J.
245 14 $aThe quiet war /$cPaul McAuley.
260 $aAmherst, NY :$bPyr,$c2009.
300 $a405 p. ;$c23 cm.
500 $a"First published: London : Gollancz, an imprint of Orion Publishing Group, 2008."
520 0 $aTwenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power has been grabbed by a few powerful families and their green saints. Millions of people are imprisoned in teeming cities; millions more labour on Pharaonic projects to rebuild ruined ecosystems. On the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, the Outers, descendants of refugees from Earth's repressive regimes, have constructed a wild variety of self-sufficient cities and settlements: scientific utopias crammed with exuberant creations of the genetic arts; the last outposts of every kind of democratic tradition. The fragile detente between the Outer cities and the dynasties of Earth is threatened by the ambitions of the rising generation of Outers, who want to break free of their cosy, inward-looking pocket paradises, colonise the rest of the Solar System, and drive human evolution in a hundred new directions. On Earth, many demand pre-emptive action against the Outers before it's too late; others want to exploit the talents of their scientists and gene wizards.Amid campaigns for peace and reconciliation, political machinations, crude displays of military might, and espionage by cunningly wrought agents, the two branches of humanity edge towards war . ..
650 0 $aImaginary wars and battles$vFiction.
650 0 $aClimatic changes$vFiction.
650 0 $aExtraterrestrial bases$vFiction.
650 0 $aSustainable development$vFiction.
655 0 $aScience fiction, English.
655 7 $aScience fiction.$2gsafd