Inherit the Stars
Alt Names: | Hoshi o Tsugu Mono Hoshi o Tsugumomo Hoshi wo Tsugu Mono Hoshi wo Tsugumono Lo scheletro impossibile 星を継ぐもの |
Author: | James P. Hogan |
Artist: | Hoshino Yukinobu |
Genres: | Fantasy Mystery Sci-fi Seinen |
Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
Status: | Ongoing |
Description: | In 205X, armed forces and conflicts are a thing of the past and people live safe, peaceful lives, all thanks to a cheap, inexhaustible source of energy. One day, something strange is discovered on the moon: an ancient corpse in a spacesuit. The corpse is undeniably human, but it appears to be about 50,000 years old! What does this mean about the history of our species and what effect will this discovery have on current human society? |
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109 Comments
that analysis so troll. i like how he points at himself
http://vatoto.com/read/_/111945/inherit-the-stars_v1_ch4_by_illuminati-manga/16
This manga is too epic to make any sense.
Aw man, nothing past ch 6?
This is GOOD.
@ Comadrin
It's nice to see someone else who enjoys Heinlein. He is another author whose entire body of work is in my library.
I've read the books (except the last one), and they are VERY solid. With the exception of confirmed "teleportation really annihilates your body and you are cloned every time", hate that stuff. And the characters are so nonchalant about it, too !!!
No space mission departs ahead of schedual.
Well, I guess if you have fusion engine the whole needs gravity assits problem goes away but still...
...not the hundreds of Moe Cucky Star, Meloncrap SuckSuckMeYea Haruhi, nor Naruto Shepoopdem crap.
But I do remember when the books were initially coming out. It was seen/published as a trilogy at the time, and the three books have fairly tightly connected plot. The others were written much later.
A wild updates appear!
Inherit the Stars and The Gentle Giants of Ganymede (collected into The Two Moons), Giants' Star and Entoverse (collected into The Two Worlds), and Mission to Minerva
Baen Ebooks has Inherit the Stars for free, and The Two Moons, The Two Worlds, and Mission to Minerva available to buy
The real problem is subtler: It seems increasingly clear that the asteroid belt is there because no planet could form there, because gravitational effects from Jupiter literally tore apart any large accretions of matter in that orbit. But that was less established when the book was written, and it is a pretty subtle problem.
It feels really weird reading a manga and having it be actual science fiction, as opposed to what manga and anime typically call science fiction.
-leechers
The trilogy is made up of the books:
Inherit the Stars
The Gentle Giants of Ganymede
Giants' Star
It's a very good trilogy, and the puzzle making up "Inherit the Stars" is perhaps the most interesting and elaborate scientific puzzle in all SF. They are IMO among his best books, along with "Voyage from Yesteryear", "The Two Faces of Tomorrow" and "Code of the Lifemaker". Later in his career IMO he kind of ran out of steam.