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
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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