Some taught that they were born of Neveya, who ruled the skies during the times of lesser light when the smaller but brighter Sun was absent, and at the end of mortal life they would return to her across the Golden Sea in which the world floated.
No memory had been handed down of where the People came from.
Fair winds brought rain from warm oceans. The forests were vast, the plains fertile. Their language had no words for war or want, famine or drought. Since the beginning of the age when their ancestors first walked in the world, the People had lived in harmony with the spirits and the elements. The help and advice of the following people is gratefully appreciated:ĭoug Beason, USAF Jim Dorris Steve Fairchild Andrew Fraknoi, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Charles Ginenthal Jackie Hogan Les Johnson, NASA, Marshall Spaceflight Center, Huntsville, AL Frank Luxem Melinda Murdock Jeffrey Slostad Brent Warner, NASA, Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, MD Betsy Wilcox, USAF To the work of Immanuel Velikovsky and the untiring efforts of Charles Ginenthal. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Dataġ. Hogan.Īll rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.įirst Baen paperback printing, December 2014 The Legend That Was Earth copyright © 2000 by James P. Hogan.Ĭradle of Saturn copyright © 1999 by James P. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.Ĭopyright © 2014 by the estate of James P. Soon, he’s caught up in a terrifying conflict that threatens the very existence of the Earth. But when wealthy socialite Roland Cade discovers the dark underbelly of the alien presence, and learns that his ex-wife is one of the so-called terrorists who are fighting against the alien takeover, he’s forced to choose sides. The alien Hyadeans have showered high-tech gifts on the population of Earth and are offering to make a paradise of the planet. This flies in the face of accepted scientific dogma, and is dismissed by Earth’s authorities-until the planet Jupiter suddenly emits a white-hot Earth-sized protoplanet that hurtles sunward on a collision course with Earth. Two classic novels from a best-selling master of SF.ĭiscoveries made by colonists on the moons of Saturn show that the Solar System has undergone repeated cataclysms and the last was only a few thousand years.
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