Rainbow Mars
1st ed.
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Word Count
79,000 words, Guess
Page Count
316 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24743151M
- ISBN-100312867778
- OCLC Control Number39887074
- OCLC Control Numberrainbowmars00nive
- Library of Congress Control Number98041613
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3564.I9 R3 1999
Description
From back cover Tor paperback May 2000: Hanville Svetz was born into a future Earth that matches the sorriest predictions of Greenpeace. With most of Earth's original species extinct, Svetz travels back and forth in time retrieving them. Svetz learns that Mars was inhabited, and how the sapient Martian species were wiped out. He foresees that Earth could soon fall victim to the same fate.
Description
Larry Niven weaves together time travel and fantasy to create an utterly unique novel on the origin of the Martian "canals.". Hanville Svetz was born into a future to match the sorriest predictions of Greenpeace. Most of Earth's original life forms are extinct. It is Svetz's job to go back in time and retrieve them, or at least it was until his Institute for Temporal Research was transferred. Now, with a new boss obsessed with stars and planets, Svetz must figure out why the Martian canals have gone dry and what that means for Earth's future. Because Mars was inhabited. When Svetz learns how the sapient Martian species were wiped out he realizes that Earth could soon fall victim to a similar fate. Together with his dog, Wrona, a visitor from the distant past, and Miya, an astronaut with her own complex history, Svetz must struggle to unravel a puzzle that will tax not just his rational mind but the very limits of his imagination.
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