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    Dawn for a Distant Earth
    Dawn for a Distant Earth
    Dawn for a Distant Earth
    Audiobook12 hours

    Dawn for a Distant Earth

    Written by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

    Narrated by Kyle McCarley

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    About this audiobook

    Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only by a few degenerate or mutated human outcasts. But among them is a boy of immense native intelligence and determination who grows up to become the force behind a plan to make Earth flower again. He is, if not immortal, at least very long-lived, and he plans to build an independent power base out in the galaxy and force the galactic empire to devote centuries and immense resources to the restoration of the ecology of Earth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 13, 2015
    ISBN9781494588113
    Dawn for a Distant Earth
    Author

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr., is the bestselling author of the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce, Corean Chronicles, and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante, the Ecolitan novels, the Forever Hero Trilogy, and Archform: Beauty. Besides a writer, Modesitt has been a U.S. Navy pilot, a director of research for a political campaign, legislative assistant and staff director for a U.S. Congressman, Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a consultant on environmental, regulatory, and communications issues, and a college lecturer. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.

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    • 4/5
      A little slow but otherwise not bad. The characters were well written.
    • 2/5
      What I liked about this book: the basic premise was good; the ending was good; the use of economics as a driver of planetary, solar system wide, and interstellar issues and activities was thought provoking; as was some of the insight into motivation for non-optimal military decision making; and I was intrigued by the discovery of the enigmatic underground relics. What I didn't like: I found Gerswin to be neither credible nor sympathetic. I can accept that Darwinism would produce Devilkids who would be smart, strong, and tough (only people with those traits would survive to procreate), but a Paganini of whistling, who also happens to be an unaging killing machine, and a great leader despite his rugged loner personality, and a super sperm machine (proof against contraceptives) with whom every woman he meets wants to have sex (those Devilkids must also have genetic selection for those pheromones I keep getting emails about)? Beyond that, I thought the shambletowner and Devilkid "societies" were not credible (there appears to me to be some bizarre inconsistencies inherent in the numbers of and interactions between Devilkids, which perhaps will be explained in future volumes). And the entire Caroljoy plot line was bizarre. And the idea that the only animals that would survive the ecological apocalypse are Man, coyote, and rat seems unlikely. In any case, based on intriguing ending (not to mention the fact that I already bought it), I will move on to book two of the series before long.