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The Founder

The Founder

Christopher Rowley
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By the 25th Century CE the slow building conflict between the billions trapped a greenhouse Earth and the 20 million Offworlders spread across the solar system approaches the breaching point. In the distant Uranus system, Edward Fundan, a habitat builder with vast resources, builds a star ship. Other, earlier treks to the nearby systems were begun long before, but Fundan will use Phoenix reaction energies to achieve much higher velocity. Before he can finish the job, he is poisoned. His grandson, carefully raised to handle the job, takes over. Despite resistance from his own family, a powerful spacer clan, Dane completes the "Founder". On the way he strikes a pact with the devil, in the shape of the Khalifi Clan, a semi-outlaw group that clings to ancient Arab ways. The Founder escapes the system ahead of the efforts by the Earth Social-Synthesis government to prevent it, possibly the last star ship that will ever do so...
Language
English
Pages
251
Format
Mass Market Paperback
Publisher
Del Rey
Release
November 13, 1989
ISBN
0345331753
ISBN 13
9780345331755

The Founder

Christopher Rowley
3.7/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
By the 25th Century CE the slow building conflict between the billions trapped a greenhouse Earth and the 20 million Offworlders spread across the solar system approaches the breaching point. In the distant Uranus system, Edward Fundan, a habitat builder with vast resources, builds a star ship. Other, earlier treks to the nearby systems were begun long before, but Fundan will use Phoenix reaction energies to achieve much higher velocity. Before he can finish the job, he is poisoned. His grandson, carefully raised to handle the job, takes over. Despite resistance from his own family, a powerful spacer clan, Dane completes the "Founder". On the way he strikes a pact with the devil, in the shape of the Khalifi Clan, a semi-outlaw group that clings to ancient Arab ways. The Founder escapes the system ahead of the efforts by the Earth Social-Synthesis government to prevent it, possibly the last star ship that will ever do so...
Language
English
Pages
251
Format
Mass Market Paperback
Publisher
Del Rey
Release
November 13, 1989
ISBN
0345331753
ISBN 13
9780345331755

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