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The Quiet Pools

Michael P. Kube-McDowell

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Published 1990 by Ace Books · 371 pages

Hugo Nominee 1991
Science Fiction

Synopsis

The Diaspora Project aims to send ten thousand colonists to the stars aboard a city-sized starship, but a radical movement called Homeworld threatens sabotage to keep humanity earthbound. As the conflict intensifies, the novel explores whether the drive to explore space is a genetic imperative encoded in human DNA or a dangerous delusion that diverts resources from a damaged Earth.

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US

ISBN

9780441699117

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