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Harvest the Fire (Harvest of Stars, Bk 3)
Harvest the Fire - Harvest of Stars, Bk 3 Author:Poul Anderson The saga about humanity's strife-ridden future among the stars. This is no less than the tale of the expansion of humanity to the limits of the solar system and beyond. The complex rivalry between human and machine has continued for years. — It also chronicles the evolution of machine intelligence, until human and machine intellig... more »ences come into conflict in an age when the outward urge and the urge to change are the chief barriers to utopia for many humans - and for their machines. Events come to a head on Prospina, where the human poet Jesse Nicol finds his fate intertwined with that of the android Venator.
A story of politics and poetry: of a poet, Jesse Nicol, who aspires to great work in an era when human literary greatness is apparently all in the past, who travels to the Moon and falls in love with a beautiful revolutionary, Falaire - a woman determined to escape from the care of machines. For the machines are now the masters of humanity, and the great work of Falaire is freedom, which must be stolen from the machines.
The series:
"Harvest of Stars" (Harvest of Stars, Bk 1)
"The Stars Are Also Fire" (Harvest of Stars, Bk 2)
"Harvest the Fire" (Harvest of Stars, Bk 3)
"The Fleet of Stars" (Harvest of Stars, Bk 4)« less