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Informationen zum Autor Pamela Sargent is the author of numerous books, including Earthseed , Cloned Lives , The Sudden Star , The Alien Upstairs , Eye of the Comet, Homesmind , and The Shore of Women. She has won the Nebula and Locus Awards. Her writing has also appeared in publications such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , Asimov’s SF Magazine , New Worlds , and World Literature Today. She lives in Albany, New York. George Zebrowski is an award-winning science fiction author and editor who has written and edited a number of books, including Brute Orbits and the Star Trek tie-in novel Across the Universe , which he co-wrote with Pamela Sargent. Klappentext With their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face annihilation. Although the U.S.S. Enterprise? has come to lead the rescue operation, there is no way to evacuate a population of over twenty million, leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet's children, its greatest leaders and thinkers, or its irreplaceable archeological treasures? No matter what he decides, millions must be sacrificed -- unless another solution can be found.With time running out, Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III, or doom both the planet and the Enterprise as well. Zusammenfassung With their sun about to go nova! the people of Epictetus III face annihilation. Although the U.S.S. Enterprise? has come to lead the rescue operation! there is no way to evacuate a population of over twenty million! leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet's children! its greatest leaders and thinkers! or its irreplaceable archeological treasures? No matter what he decides! millions must be sacrificed -- unless another solution can be found. With time running out! Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III! or doom both the planet and the Enterprise as well. ...
