182 pages
English language
Published Aug. 13, 1969 by Gollancz.
John Boyd: The last starship from earth (1969, Gollancz)
182 pages
English language
Published Aug. 13, 1969 by Gollancz.
The world of the recent future... theoretical mathematicians are at the top of society; geneticists determine mate selection; the Pope is a computer. Hell is a distant planet. Space travel has been conquered and abandoned. Haldane IV, a young mathematician, falls in love with Helix, a poetess — a forbidden union. They are discovered and sent for trial...