Novella The Earth has been destroyed, the remnants of humanity search for a new habitable planet in a fleet of slower-than-light torchships for centuries, building an advanced civilization on the fly, with full sensory media, telepathy-like implanted "taps." The story of a full sensory artist discovering a terrible truth and having to tell it to his civilization. A take on THE BOOK OF JOB, among other things, with God and the Devil as other main characters. A classic nominated for many awards. |