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Riding the Torch

(1978)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1975 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee)

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.


Genre: Science Fiction

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