Donald Kingsbury

In the 761st century, Eron Osa is faced with the ultimate penalty, the removal of his fam--an augmentation of his brain by an electronic familiar--without which he confronts the loss of his memories and his professional expertise and must function unaided amid the complexities of everyday life on the capital world of the Milky Way. Reprint.

Psychohistorical Crisis

A loving homage to Asimov, and dialogue with him--a triumph of galactic-scaled SF that is destined to be recognized as a classic in its own right Eron Osa had faced the ultimate penalty. Not death, but the removal of his fam. Without the augmentation of his brain by his electronic familiar, he can barely function amidst the bewildering complexities of everyday life on Splendid Wisdom. Here, on the capital world of the galaxy's Second Empire, everyone from the meanest citizen to the ruling Pscholars has depended upon a fam since childhood. Without one, simply navigating the streets and levels of the planetary megalopolis is a paralyzing challenge. Lost along with such everyday survival skills were many of Eron's memories and his professional knowledge. The crime he committed must have been terrible to warrant such a dreadful punishment. If only he could remember what it was!

Eron Osa a subi le châtiment suprême. Pire que la mort le retrait de son fam. Sans cette sonde psychique qui décuple les capacités de son cerveau, il parvient à peine à se déplacer parmi les rues et les niveaux innombrables de Sublime Sagesse, la planète capitale de la Voie lactée. Car en cette 14 810e année de l'Ere galactique, plus de seize siècles après la fondation du second Empire, chaque citoyen, du plus modeste jusqu'à l'élite des psychialistes, dépend entièrement de son fam pour évoluer dans cet univers hautement technologique. Et Eron, privé de la plupart de ses souvenirs, y compris des raisons de sa disgrâce, va peu à peu découvrir l'enfer de sa nouvelle condition. Le crime qu'il a commis doit être terrible pour lui valoir une telle punition. A moins qu'Eron ne se trouve à son insu au cœur d'un complot à l'échelle de la Galaxie...

Psychohistoire en péril

The time is the late 1980s. Once again the Russians have shaken the Americans with a space spectacular-one that far outstrips the launching of Sputnik in 1958. This time they have secretly lofted a full-scale space station that dwarfs the one the U.S. hopes to build in the '90s.The American response-as it was in the late 1950s-is a crash program to overtake and surpass the Soviet effort. And by 2010 their efforts have succeeded. Burgeoning space industry has resulted in an economic boom unprecedented in U.S. history-and man will never again be confined to Earth.But it is the people behind the U.S. space program that make it succeed-and that make THE MOON GODDESS AND THE SON so memorable."Man's journey to the stars will be no mere historical abstraction: it will take many specific steps by individual men and women. The key stepping-stone is Kingsbury's own invention, and a mind-boggler it is: as grandiose and daring as a transcontinental railroad might have seemed to the Mayflower crew-and just as possible."- Stanley Schmidt, editor, Analog"I admit with some envy that Kingsbury's epic reminds me of Michener's Space. The theme is similar: that talented cadre of hardnoses we follow to new frontiers, literally to new worlds. But Kingsbury's people remind me more of some I've met in our push to space: raffish, impatient, wonderfully human-and grasping for the superhuman."-Dean Ing, author of Mutual Assured Survival and The Future of Flight

The Moon Goddess and the Son

The Finger Pointing Solward

The late-1980s launching of a mammoth, full-scale Soviet space station prompts the United States to a crash program that, by 2010, surpasses all Soviet endeavors, results in an unprecedented economic boom, and catapults humankind fully into space

Geta

On the inhospitable planet Geta, where only the strong survive, three creche-brothers of clan Kaiel are ordered by their ruler to ally with a heretical outlander and begin a ritual courtship whose outcome may be world changing

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