The Worlds Trilogy
Worlds, Worlds Apart, and Worlds Enough and Time
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4.3 • 10 Ratings
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- $20.99
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Publisher Description
The acclaimed author of The Forever War imagines a future in which most of humanity has abandoned Earth for man-made habitats orbiting the troubled world.
In Worlds, Worlds Apart, and Worlds Enough and Time, the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author imagines a near future rife with exhilarating and terrifying possibilities, when hundreds of thousands of human beings have abandoned the Earth’s surface to live in man-made habitats orbiting the troubled planet.
Haldeman’s science fiction saga follows Marianne O’Hara, a young inhabitant of the World known as New New York, from her arrival on Earth as a student who becomes seduced by radical politics, through her coming of age amid the Worlds’ war and the habitats’ devastation, and ultimately to Marianne’s emergence as a leader—and possibly the last hope of the human race as it heads toward the stars.
Stephen King said of the first book in Haldeman’s trilogy, “There are scenes in Worlds I will remember forever.” These gripping novels will enthrall anyone interested in the future—that of our planet and of the human race.
Customer Reviews
A twist on the theme of interstellar settlement
Generation ships are a common SF trope. Haldeman handled this one differently. As usual, the plot threads involve all the things that can go wrong and how the travellers have to handle them. Narratively, it’s interesting that the story is told by two versions of O’Hara. One is the original flesh and blood person who has already told us the first two novels. The other is an AI duplicate made when she was 29 and helping to create the skillset software needed to store the aptitudes and knowledge that might need to be shared by future generations. Most of the templates are just information, but Prime turned out to be a complete personality and memory clone. She tells the parts of the story that need summarizing and commentary, while O’Hara handles the more personal views.