Fleet of Stars, Poul Anderson
Fleet of Stars, Poul Anderson
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Fleet of Stars

Author: Poul Anderson

Narrator: James Fouhey

Unabridged: 15 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/07/2021


Synopsis

The multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction delivers "an exciting culmination to an ambitious saga" (Publishers Weekly).

Far into the reaches of space, Anson Guthrie and a band of colonists have forged a new existence on Amaterasu not as physical beings but as downloaded consciousness watched over by the benevolent Life Mother. Yet as idyllic as their lives may be, back home on Earth the situation is growing grim.

Earth's inhabitants are now completely dependent—and so controlled—by an intelligent machine known as the Teramind. But the instinctual human desire to be free is not something the Teramind has included in its calculations. The seeds of rebellion are growing.

Suspecting a conspiracy to suppress humankind's last vestiges of freedom, Guthrie and his loyal companions make a dangerous journey back to Earth—risking everything to preserve humanity's independent destiny.

The thrilling conclusion to Anderson's four-volume, award-winning epic vision of mankind's evolution, begun in Harvest of Stars, "Fleet of Stars is a grand story that gets bigger and better with every page" (Larry Bond).

About Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson (1926-2001) grew up bilingual in a Danish American family. After discovering science fiction fandom and earning a physics degree at the University of Minnesota, he found writing science fiction more satisfactory. Admired for his hard science fiction, mysteries, historical novels, and "fantasy with rivets," he also excelled in humor. He was the guest of honor at the 1959 World Science Fiction Convention and at many similar events, including the 1998 Contact Japan 3 and the 1999 Strannik Conference in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Besides winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, he received the Gandalf, Seiun, and Strannik, or "Wanderer," Awards. A founder of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he became a Grand Master, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anthony on May 31, 2016

If you liked "Harvest of Stars", "The Stars Are Also Fire", and/or "Harvest the Fire", you'll probably like this. Standard space libertarian ubermensch novel.......more

Goodreads review by Larry on July 29, 2024

Was rather underwhelmed. Plenty of very interesting sci fi ideas here, many under utilized in the genre. But a whole lot of preaching re the ills of governments and so on. Narratively there were threads that had nothing to do with each other until the last few pages, and even then much that had no c......more

Goodreads review by Teresa on January 13, 2024

I found this book very long and drawn out, often boring and I would skim. And the main character is an AH.......more

Goodreads review by Adam on July 03, 2024

The final volume of Anderson's epic Harvest of Stars series winds up the ancient conflict between freedom loving metamorphs and their human allies with the overbearing machines of the cybercosm. Big action, big ideas: Classic Space Opera.......more