Imperial Earth
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781857983388 (1857983386)
Publish date: April 1997
Publisher: Vista
Pages no: 287
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Anthologies,
Space,
Space Opera,
Speculative Fiction,
Collections,
Hard Science Fiction
This isn't one of Clarke's more strongly plotted novels, and at over thirty-five years old, well, it's inevitably already quite dated in lots of details. But Clarke's imaginative vision of humanity's future, his descriptions of the wonders of Titan (one of Saturn's moons) and Earth both, makes for g...
Nutshell: copy of a copy of the colonial administrator on Titan travels to Earth to make yet another copy of himself, gets re-involved in love triangle, gives congressional speech at US quincentennial, &c.Doesn't ever really get off the ground for me. Not until the final third of the volume does t...