Migration

The world of the past eventually died in the conflagartion toward which it had bben doggedly heading. A more fragmented and diversified order has emerged from the ruins and technology has reappeared to a greater or lesser degree in some places and not all in others. Unique among them is the nation-atate of Sofi, with an exceptional population that has rediscovered advanced science. However, as the old patterns that led to ruin before begin to reassert themselves across the rest of the world, a scientific-political movement within Sofi embarks on a years-long project to build a generation starship that will enable them to create their own world elsewhere. The circumstances and thinking of future generations growing in the totally unknown situation of a space environment cannot be known. Accordingly, the mission will include different groups of idealists, reformers, misfits, and dissidents who are not satisfied with the world-in-miniature that constitutes the original mother ship, to go out and build whatever they want. Hence, what arrives at the distant star generations hence will be a flotilla of variously run city states, frontier towns, religious monasteries, pleasure resorts, urban crushes, rural spreads, academic retreats, and who-knows what else. The trouble began, of course when all the old patterns that thet thought they were getting away from started reappearing.... After Armageddon Came a Renaissance Reaching for the Starsbut was It Only a False Rebirth? Real science fiction by a New York Times best-selling author. The world of the past eventually died in the conflagration toward which it had been doggedly heading. A more fragmented and diversified order has emerged from the ruins and . technology has reappeared to a greater or lesser degree in some places and not at all in others. Unique among them is the nation-state of Sofi, with an exceptional population that has rediscovered advanced science. However, as the old patterns that led to ruin before begin to reassert themselves across the rest of the world, a scientific-political movement within Sofi embarks on a years-long project to build a generation starship that will enable them to create their own world elsewhere. The circumstances and thinking of future generations growing up in the totally unknown situation of a space environment cannot be known. Accordingly, the mission will include different groups of idealists, reformers, misfits, and dissidents who are not satisfied with the world-in-miniature that constitutes the original mother ship, to go out and build whatever they want. Hence, what arrives at the distant star generations hence will be a flotilla of variously run city states, frontier towns, religious monasteries, pleasure resorts, urban crushes, rural spreads, academic retreats, and who-knows what else. The trouble began, of course, when all the old patterns that they thought they were getting away from started reappearing . . .

from The Ashes Of Post-apocalypse Earth A New Order Has Arisen To Reach For The Stars. Planet Of Salvation Hera Is Discovered And A Generation Ship Will Carry A Select Group From Wrecked, Ravaged Earth To A Better Future For Their Children. But Who To Take On The Voyage? Why Not Your Best And Brightest Tech-smiths And Tinkerers? And, As Far As Political Systems Go, Heck, Why Not Send Along everything – representatives Of all the Societies And Political Systems Now Surviving? It’s A Desperate Gamble To Forge An Intergalactic Species Of Humanity – On The Trip Out!

about James P. Hogan:

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After Armagedden came a Renaissance - or was it a false rebirth? The world of the past eventually died in the conflagration toward which it had been doggedly heading. A more fragmented and diversified order has emerged from the ruins and technology has reappeared to a greater or lesser degree in some places and not at all in others.