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No longer able to return to his home on Earth, Charles Dingillian and his two brothers must choose a new planet to call home. But which one?Charles has come into possession of a prototype HARLIE unit so revolutionary and state-of-the-art that corporations will stop at nothing—including murder—to control it. Earth is in a state of social and economic meltdown. The battle for domination between rival corporations has gone interplanetary.
Charles has been at war before: only, that was a show more personal civil war waged between him and his parents. In an effort to end the strife once and for all, thirteen-year-old Charles took the drastic step of "divorcing" his parents. He and his brothers are now free to do what they choose.
Freedom for Charles and his brothers means passage on a starship to a colony Outbeyond. There, they will use HARLIE to help build a better world. But freedom also means exile. From his home. From his friends. From everything he has ever known. And even his chance for a new life on a remote planet is put in jeopardy when a critical malfunction with the HARLIE unit seemingly threatens the integrity of the voyage. However, a faction of passengers on board the Brightliner Cascade may pose an even greater risk.
A risk not even an intelligence as powerful as a HARLIE unit can avert. show less
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Gerrold, David. Leaping to the Stars. Dingilliad No. 3. Tor, 2002.
Charles and his dysfunctional family get chased off the moon and board a starship with their quantum-computing toy monkey. Charles faces one adult-initiation experience after another, as he struggles to resolve for himself the vexing relationships between community and individual responsibility and expression. Along the way, there is some intriguing speculation about the nature of computer sentience and its relation to human sentience. There is lively YAF action and even more social messaging than there were in the previous volumes. If the previous novel owed much to Heinlein’s The Rolling Stones, this one owes a big debt to Starman Jones.
Charles and his dysfunctional family get chased off the moon and board a starship with their quantum-computing toy monkey. Charles faces one adult-initiation experience after another, as he struggles to resolve for himself the vexing relationships between community and individual responsibility and expression. Along the way, there is some intriguing speculation about the nature of computer sentience and its relation to human sentience. There is lively YAF action and even more social messaging than there were in the previous volumes. If the previous novel owed much to Heinlein’s The Rolling Stones, this one owes a big debt to Starman Jones.
I loved this one! If you can only read one of the books in this trilogy, read this one. I loved the discussions on "what does it mean to be human?" "how do you know the difference between good and evil?"
I loved this one! If you can only read one of the books in this trilogy, read this one. I loved the discussions on "what does it mean to be human?" "how do you know the difference between good and evil?"
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David Gerrold is one of the most popular science fiction writers working today. His first professional sale, the Star Trek episode "Trouble With Tribbles," won a Hugo Award. He has written for television, published more than forty books, and had columns in six different magazines. In 1995, his novelette "The Martian Child" won both the Hugo and show more Nebula Awards. Gerrold lives in San Fernando, California, and teaches writing at Pepperdine University show less
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- Leaping To The Stars
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- 2002
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- Charles "Chigger" Dingillian
- Dedication
- for Miles Rinis, with love
- First words
- "You understand, of course, that this is a one-way trip. There will be no possibility of return."
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I put my fingers to the keys and started playing.
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