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Bezig met laden... Van de aarde verbannen (1961)door Poul Anderson
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Seeking freedom from their oppressive government on Earth, a ragtag group of idealists embark on a perilous journey to found a new world light-years from home On a future Earth, gone are the halcyon days of the early space program, when the universe held endless promise and excitement. Overcrowded, ruled by a corrupt autocracy, and plagued by vast economic inequalities, life on Earth has become nightmarish, and the promise of a world beyond the planet is diminishing rapidly as the government begins shuttering its interstellar efforts. But for a small band of rebels called Constitutionalists, escaping into the vast universe beyond is the only hope. And so off they set for a distant planet where they can start over, building a new society on the principle of liberty, testing the very limits of human capability. Their years-long trip is not without its tribulations, from internecine conflict on the ship to ambiguous pleas from Earth to return. Their destination, an Earth-like planet called Rustum, is twenty light-years away, and through every treacherous moment of the journey they know that their most harrowing trials are yet to come when they finally reach their new home. The story of Rustum and the Constitutionalists who settled there continues in New America. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The heroes of this novel are drawn from a strong-jawed, all-American subculture of a future One World Government that rules iron-fistedly over an enormously overcrowded earth. Earth in general is tired and has become inward-looking; space exploration is all but extinct. The rebellious subculture’s way of life is being eroded intentionally by the Government’s schooling programme. In response, they invoke the US constitution and various American resistance movements against overreaching governments (protestants, Mormons), and they start stockpiling weapons and planning their boycotts. That is, until they are offered the opportunity to leave Earth and start afresh on a newly-discovered Earthlike planet, for which they have to sell their Earthly possessions to book passage on a Generation Ship. Once they have arrived on their New World they become egalitarian ranchers who live in log huts and whose wilderness skills are a necessity for survival as they struggle with the unfamiliar native lifeforms. Naturally, they will soon bring forth a new nation,
So yeah: standard but pretty solid SF-adventuring on the one hand, and quite a lot of US self-aggrandisement on the other. ( )