Colony

ISBN: 1482914026

Author: Ben Bova

Condition: New

Product Description [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.] [Read by Kristoffer Tabori] In the future, everything is different -- but nothing has changed.''The Earth has been poisoned by pollution, choked by overpopulation, and ravaged by the mindless greed of power-hungry corporations. A fragile peace is threatened by landless revolutionaries and global anarchy seems imminent. Yet a single ray of hope remains . . . '' Island One is a celestial utopia, and David Adams is its most perfect creation -- a man with a brain as advanced as any computer and a body free of human frailties. But David is a prisoner -- a captive of the colony that created him -- destined to spend the days of his life in an island-sized cylinder that circles a doomed and desperate home planet. Thousands of miles below him, a world trembles; its people cringe in terror and despair in anticipation of an impending apocalypse. And fate has cast one extraordinary human in the role of savior. For David Adams has a plan -- one that will ultimately ensure the salvation of his species . . . or its annihilation. Review ''A beautiful story full of prophetic visions.'' --Frank Herbert, New York Times bestselling author''Moves well, the characters are solid and believable, and it holds its own as a nice piece of 'hard' science fiction.'' --SFSite.com About the Author BEN BOVA, six-time winner of science fiction's Hugo Award, is the author of over 120 futuristic novels and nonfiction books. A former editor ofAnalog and former fiction editor ofOmni, he is also president emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, and his novelTitan won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel of 2006. In 2008 he won the Robert A. Heinlein Award.