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TheтАЩDays Between part three: Coming to Coyote part four: Liberty Journals Book Tuio: Shores of the
Unknown part five: The Boid Hunt part Six: Across the Eastern Divide part seven: Lonesome and a Long
Way from Home part eight: Glorious Destiny Acknowledgments Sources URS5 Rlabama-creuu Robert
E. Lee-Captain Tom Shapiro-First Officer Jud Tinsley-Executive Officer Dana Monroe-┬╗-Chief
Engineer Kuniko Okada-Chief Physician Leslie Gillis-Chief Communications Officer Sharon
Ullman-Senior Navigator Eric Gunther-life support engineer Wendy Gunther-daughter Jack
Dreyfus-engineer Lisa Dreyfus-wife Barry Dreyfus-son Ellery Balis-quartermaster Jean
Swenson-communications officer Kim Newell-shuttle pilot Ted LeMare-ensign Paul Dwyer-engineer
UR55 Rlabama-colonists montero family:

Jorge Montero-electrical systems engineer Rita Montero-wife Carlos Montero-son (older)

Marie Montero-daughter (younger) xi levin family:

James Levin-exobiologist Cecelia тАЬSissyтАЭ Levin-wife Chris Levin-son (older) David Levin-son (younger)
cayle family:

Bernie Cayle-biochemist Vonda Cayle-schoolteacher geary family:

Lew Geary-agriculture specialist Carrie Geary-agriculture specialist Henry Johnson-astrophysicist Beth
Orr-botanist Michael Geissal-law officer Patrick Molloy-engineer Naomi Fisher-chief cook Soldiers,
United Republic Service Col. Gilbert тАЬGillтАЭ Reese Sgt. Ron Schmidt Corp. William Boone Corp.
Antonio Lucchesi Corp. John Carruthers On Earth Hamilton Conroy-President, United Republic of
America Joseph R. Rochelle-Senator, United Republic of America Elise Rochelle Lee-his daughter, R.
E. LeeтАЩs former wife Roland Shaw-Director of Internal Security, United Republic of America Ben
Aldrich-Launch Supervisor, Gingrich Space Center An unnamed Prefect An unnamed doctor

This is the story of the new world. It begins not there, however, but on Earth, in the closing years of the
twentieth century.

The Milky Way galaxy is nearly one hundred thousand light-years in diameter; within its spiral structure
are approximately fifty thousand stars, ranging from tiny protostars coalescing within great clouds of
interstellar gas to white dwarfs nearing the end of their life spans. Between these extremes are .tens of
thousands of suns: some tightly clustered together near the galactic core, the vast majority isolated from
one another by distances incomprehensible save by mathematical reckoning. Planets are commonplace
among the main-sequence stars. Comprised of the leftover mass from a starтАЩs infancy, gradually formed
over the course of millennia by tidal forces within their accretion belts, theyтАЩre the afterthoughts of
Creation.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, only a handful of scientists and the smallest fraction of the public
thought intelligent life existed beyond Earth; by the time the twenty-first century arrived, it was difficult to
find a well-educated person who believed otherwise. It stood to reason that, if planetary systems existed
throughout the galaxy, then life, too, must be widespread. Yet even as writers, artists, and filmmakers
envisioned a galaxy-indeed, an entire universe-teeming with extraterrestrials of every conceivable shape
and size, many astronomers and astrophysicists began to suspect the opposite.

Although it was true that most main-sequence stars were capable of generating planets, it appeared far
less likely than assumed earlier that most of these planets were able to harbor life, save perhaps in its
primitive condition. The planets might orbit too close to their suns, or too far away, for their surface
conditions to allow the emergence of complex multicellular life-forms. Although colonies of bacteria may