- Gravity, Fiction, Scientists, Life on other planets
When Larry Chao, a junior scientist, figures out a way to control artificial gravity via the ring and unauthorized surrounding Charon, he makes a grave mistake. He allows an otherwise unknown alien race called the Charonians to disappear the Earth via a created wormhole. This story is masterfully told in two separate perspectives. The remaining humans not located on Earth and Earth's destroyers, the Charonians.
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- Author
- Roger MacBride Allen
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 512
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780812530148
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Roger MacBride Allen (born September 26, 1957) is an American science fiction author. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and grew up in Washington, D.C., graduating from Boston University in 1979. His father is American historian and author Thomas B. Allen.
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