"Jack Williamson - Eldren 1 - Lifeburst" - читать интересную книгу автора (Williamson Jack)

1977-1986 John Kwan, entranced by TV coverage of the Voyager flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus,
discovers the wonder of space. When his father dies, leaving them on welfare, his mother takes him to
Hong Kong. Possessing his great-grandfatherтАЩs тАЬRomanoff nose,тАЭ he is welcomed into the House of
Kwan.




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Goldengene, a graduate student of galactic dynamics at a Newmarch university, is assigned to duty as
the Newling attach├й at Point Vermillion, an isolated observatory maintained on the northward fringes
of the solar halo, to watch for the approaching Black Companion. Her people, the Newlings, are
refugees from the seeker conquest of their natal star, and she is alert for possible pursuit.




1996 Smolensk-Atlanta Incident. City of Smolensk hit by robotic missile launched by protestors trying
to vandalize it. Atlanta destroyed in retaliation. Millions are killed, more millions injured, but total
nuclear holocaust is averted.




1997 Antinuclear Gottesvolk Movement spreads from East Germany, its underground leaders
proclaiming the fall of Marxism and the rise of the Republic of God.




1999 Sri Lanka Accords. All nuclear weapons and nuclear materials are transferred to Supranational
Nucleonics Repository. To assure compliance, all national space programs are terminated.




2000 John Kwan secures funds for a civilian space project, Kwan Planetary Laboratories,
headquartered in Hong Kong and dedicated to his dreams of space conquest.




Sun Year 1 Kwan Labs engineers invent kwanlon, a monomolecular fiber with theoretical strength
enough to link Earth with geosynchronous satellites.

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