{"id":11202,"date":"2025-05-03T05:48:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T10:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=11202"},"modified":"2025-05-03T05:48:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T10:48:24","slug":"inherit-the-stars-james-p-hogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2025\/05\/03\/inherit-the-stars-james-p-hogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Inherit the Stars — James P. Hogan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nInherit the Stars
\nThomas Waters
\n188 pages
\npublished in 1977
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\nWhile idly browsing a certain manga site, I discovered somebody had made a manga<\/a> out of James Hogan Giants<\/cite> series. That got me interested enough to start reading it, having read the original novels and liking them. As I was reading though it didn’t feel quite right. While it had been a long time since I’ve read them (as I never reviewed any of them on here, it must’ve been twenty-five years ago at least), but it seemed more action orientated and conspiracy minded than I remembered. Which of course led me to reread the original novel that started off the series: Inherit the Stars<\/cite>.\n<\/p>\n

\nFor once the cover on a seventies science fiction novel actually more or less accurately depicts a key scene from the story: the discovery of a dead astronaut clad in a red space suit on the Moon, though in the story he’s found in a cave rather than on the surface. It’s sometime in the twenty-first century and unlike with most Disco Era space exploration novels, we do not have an eternal Cold War going on. The world is a bit utopian even, compared to the actual 21st century so far. The world is rich and at peace, with military budgets slashed as nation states had matured. Profiting from that is the UN Solar System Exploration Program, which explains why there were people on the Moon in the first place able to find that dead astronaut. An astronaut that turns out to be 50,000 years old…\n<\/p>\n

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