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Two hundred years ago mankind found Orbitsville, a vast sphere whose habitable inner surface comprised living space equivalent to five billion Earths. The resulting migration was enthusiastic - and nearly total. Earth itself is a backwater now, a place with which the people of Orbitsville maintain only marginal contact. But just because it's backward doesn't mean it isn't dangerous.

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“…adventures in the imagination of evil…shuffle the masks and bend the forms: befuddlement, complicity, inadvertence, dilettantism, irrationality…focus on private accommodations and betrayals against a background of public, almost abstract violence. “Firestorm tells the first-person story of a young man who, having flunked out of college, is given $1000 by his father and packed off to Europe with the injunction: ‘Come back a man.’ On a Turkish ship out of Piraeus bound for Port Said, he meets Carlos and Lillian, an American couple who appear to have toured the world in a mood of unrelieved ennui. Together, the three of them and a Paris-educated Senegalese travel south to the strife-torn Congo. There the narrator---perhaps for the first time in his life---manipulates events instead of a acquiescing in them; the riddle of Carlos and Lillian’s relationship is explained; and disaster ensues. “Mr. Rand insinuates his way into the reader’s confidence with a prose style that seems at first a collaboration between Hemingway and Salinger: lean, declarative sentences, each with an ironic tic. Then there are hints of other writers---Conrad, Graham Greene, the Saul Bellow of “Henderson the Rain King” --- almost as though the books Lillian reads on the journey signal each deepening complication. Light in August, Death in Venice, Death on the Installment Plan, Man’s Fate, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, The Idiot… “Finally, having left behind first the culture of ‘plastic articles and the sort of values people assume who must have values…where death happened to other people’; having then lost touch entirely with ‘the human establishment’; having descended into the heart of Africa, into a political fire, a dream of extinction-

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Centaurus was the destination of the space ship The Hope of Man. It had been traveling thru space for almost twenty years & still nine years of flight remained before Centaurus would be reached. For many on board the craft earth had become a vague memory, while for others it was a mere dot in the vast starry reaches of space. Restlessness was evident everywhere. The people wanted to return to a place they knew was inhabited--not continue to an unknown where life was questionable. Mutiny seemed inevitable. Captain Lesbee knew that mutiny bred mutiny, but what was more vital was his knowledge of earth's possible obliteration. The one hope was Centaurus. Now more than ever, there could be no turning back. Order had to be maintained even at the price of human life. This is only the beginning of a fascinating dramatic interspace voyage, where the greatest hazards are not the forces of an unknown scientific world, but humans themselves.