Earthseed by Pamela SargentI came across this book while looking at a request someone had for a book they had once read. Someone may have mentioned these novels or I might have just stumbled upon them at the time. Either way I decided since I have read Pamela Sargent's Venus series and enjoyed he...
The Venus Project is the most ambitious undertaking in human history: bringing to life the harsh and barren world called Venus. This is the saga of a new generation of pioneers who battle natural disaster and human weakness to make a new home in space for themselves and their descendents. Reprint.
This dystopian story deals with the reversal of roles between men and women, and who holds the power. The investigation of what might be different if women were in charge was a fascinating premise, heightened by the meticulous physical descriptions of people, places and survival tactics on both ...
A girl growing up in an insulated though pleasant environment, with a furry guardian for company, comes to realize that she must be the last human left on earth.
Well-written and, at first, engaging. No issues with overused favorite words or expressions, free of gross grammatical error, etc. Characters are very well-developed, especially for such a short novel. The author is efficient! However, there is a desert of nothing around the middle of the story w...
There are times one must wonder why it takes so long to complete a trilogy. Certainly Venus of Shadows begged for a sequel. Let's finish the terraforming of Venus and end this episode of future space history.The novel's central figure, Mahala Liangharad is a test tube descendant (granddaughter)...
Similar to "Shore of Women" the first book in the Venus Trilogy by Pamela Sargent tackles issues of sex, gender, power, and authority. Set over 600 years in the future, the Earth has come under control of Islam but not in the form we think of today, not even close to what you might think of in th...
Alone in the desert, Daiya is faced with dilemma that will determine her fate. If she can successfully resolve it she will join the Net of her village, but if she fails, her life will be spent with the feared Merged Ones. Confused and torn between worlds near and far, Daiya harbors a secret of he...
The theme of immortality is one that has fascinated science fiction writers, and readers, throughout the history of the genre. In The Golden Space, Pamela Sargent has tackled the subject in a unique and daring way and has produced a fascinating speculation on what humanity would undergo if univer...
Insanity was rampant...Rape and murder was as common as suicide. Medical help was allowed only for certain diseases, and disobedience incurred the worst of punishments. Ever since the sudden appearance of the white hole over Earth in the year 2000, society had decayed---and now only the corrupt s...
The ground below rushed up toward her; the shuttle suddenly veered to the right, evading a barrier.A force field, Homesmind murmured. A diagram flickered in her mind and on the shuttle’s screen. The field, reaching above the stratosphere, was an invisible wall enclosing green land, part of a moun...
She went to the kitchen and made tea, then sat at the table. The thought of the winter ahead oppressed her. She considered taking the coins and going south with Gerard. Closing her eyes, she thought of palm trees and warm sand, dulcet breezes and salty air. The coins would eventually be spent, an...
and in fact I had the idea for a Hillary story not long after “Danny” was published, yet this story balked at being written and didn’t reach fruition for some years. I just couldn’t get a handle on Hillary as a character, a difficulty I seem to have shared with a great many Americans. Are we talk...
Defeated, the city’s inhabitants trudged along the highway, crowding the four lanes. Suzanne Molitieri could hear the droning of murmurs punctuated by an occasional wail. Don’t look back. She kept her eyes resolutely focused on the asphalt at her feet as she walked. Her hand clutched Joel’s, both...
Ahead, Anra could see a landscape of low, rolling hills; to the south, the grassy roofs of a few huts were barely visible.The craft lifted itself as they approached the hills. Anra knew that Lydee could have made the trip in less time. The shuttle could have soared above the clouds and then dropp...
He stepped toward her, smiled, then walked back toward the steps leading down to the beach. He had nodded at her when she passed him before; his grayish-green eyes seemed familiar. He might be a former student. Her memory for faces was poor, and often she forgot what even her best students looked...