No World of Their Own
Poul Anderson
- Space
- explorers
- returning
- to
- an
- unrecognizable
- Earth
- after
- five
- millennia
- away
- find
- themselves
- caught
- up
- in
- a
- deadly
- political
- power
- game
- on
- a
- planet
- racing
- toward
- intergalactic
- warFive
- thousand
- years
- have
- passed
- since
- the
- interstellar
- spacecraft
- Explorer
- left
- Earth,
- and
- now
- Edward
- Langley
- and
- his
- two
- crewmates
- are
- returning
- home.
- The
- faster-than-light
- mission
- that
- took
- only
- a
- year
- for
- Langley,
- Matsumoto,
- and
- Blaustein
- has
- cost
- them
- the
- only
- world
- they
- ever
- knew.
- This
- future
- Earth
- is
- unrecognizable,
- its
- global
- society
- ruled
- by
- a
- benevolent,
- all-powerful
- computer
- and
- divided
- into
- a
- strict
- class
- structure
- of
- masters
- and
- slaves.
- Though
- war
- has
- been
- eradicated
- for
- generations,
- tensions
- between
- the
- powers
- on
- Earth
- and
- colonists
- on
- Centaurus
- over
- mineral
- mining
- are
- rapidly
- reaching
- a
- violent
- breaking
- point.
- The
- homecoming
- of
- three
- astronauts
- from
- the
- distant
- past
- should
- have
- no
- bearing
- on
- the
- present
- political
- situation.
- But
- the
- crewmembers
- did
- not
- come
- back
- alone—and
- the
- alien
- visitor
- who
- accompanied
- them
- holds
- the
- key
- to
- victory
- or
- total
- defeat.One
- of
- the
- most
- acclaimed
- of
- the
- Golden
- Age
- science
- fiction
- masters,
- Poul
- Anderson
- has
- written
- a
- provocative
- and
- enthralling
- tale
- of
- the
- future
- that
- incorporates
- his
- trademark
- blend
- of
- hard
- science,
- sociology,
- and
- humanism.
- At
- once
- thrilling
- and
- thought
- provoking,
- No
- World
- of
- Their
- Own
- is
- classic
- speculative
- fiction
- at
- its
- page-turning
- best,
- as
- only
- the
- incomparable
- Anderson
- could
- imagine it.
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