Bought this is a sale and didn't realise it was a children's book until I got it home. So I thought I'd give it to my younger brother, but looking through it I realised I'd read it when I was at school. Probably one of the first science-fiction books I'd ever read. So I've re-read it now and it's...
Gilmore looked at the image on his aide’s display thoughtfully. Was this what Earth had once looked like? Sparkling, blue and white and green? The Roving had two continents. There was one huge one which the pack said on Earth would have stretched from Greece to Antarctica,...
The hum of life was everywhere – the humus on the ground, the leaves up above, and the thriving chain of ecosystems around the tree trunks that linked the two. Life was engaged in a constant, to-the-death battle with itself and yet was involved in an intricate balance, every organism depending mi...