How can we achieve a better world? A Happier future? A new understanding of human life? This startling and authoritative book shows how such a society could be built. In so doing it produces a beautiful and grim new myth.
Towards the end of the twenty-first century, a society of men and women a few thousand strong is marooned on our neighbouring planet, Mars. This is a Mars granted its own constitution, a Mars unspoilt, unimproved, a Mars one character calls the ‘Ayers Rock in the sky’. As the Antarctic has been designated a continent for science, so Mars is preserved as a planet for science – a Whit Mars! And while the utopian debate is in progress, the question of alien life enters in a dramatic way. Oh yes, size matters!
The novel throngs with characters. People are important. They must cooperate or they perish. The mover and shaker is Tom Jefferies; on the austere world to which he and his company are exiled, he slowly creates his goal, the humanising of science,… (tovább)
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Or, The Mind Set Free
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