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Twenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks
backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power
has been grabbed by a few powerful families and their green saints.
Millions of people are imprisoned in teeming cities; millions more
labour on Pharaonic projects to rebuild ruined ecosystems. On the moons
of Jupiter and Saturn, the Outers, descendants of refugees from Earth's
repressive regimes, have constructed a wild variety of self-sufficient
cities and settlements: scientific utopias crammed with exuberant
creations of the genetic arts; the last outposts of every kind of
democratic tradition.
The fragile detente between the Outer cities
and the dynasties of Earth is threatened by the ambitions of the rising
generation of Outers, who want to break free of their cosy,
inward-looking pocket paradises, colonise the rest of the Solar System,
and drive human evolution in a hundred new directions. On Earth, many
demand pre-emptive action against the Outers before it's too late;
others want to exploit the talents of their scientists and gene wizards.
Amid campaigns for peace and reconciliation, political machinations,
crude displays of military might, and espionage by cunningly wrought
agents, the two branches of humanity edge towards war . . .