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"War is humanity's only hope. ""Aldiss' dark vision of collapsing society and withering earth is poignant and brutal . . . [a] richly detailed world"" (Science Fiction Ruminations). In a future where the Earth has been savaged by overpopulation and over-farming, robots are considered more valuable than humans, and sand must be altered to create artificially fertile soil. Ex-convict Knowle Noland, the hallucinating sea captain of the Trieste Star, finds himself wrapped up in a plot to incite a global war that will wipe out millions. War, it seems, is the only way to drastically reduce the population and create a better world for those who survive."

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"Brian W. Aldiss was born in Norfolk, England, in 1925. Over a long and distinguished writing career, he published award-winning science fiction (two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award); bestselling popular fiction, including the three-volume Horatio Stubbs saga and the four-volume the Squire Quartet; experimental fiction such as Report on Probability A and Barefoot in the Head; and many other iconic and pioneering works, including the Helliconia Trilogy. He edited many successful anthologies and published groundbreaking nonfiction, including a magisterial history of science fiction (Billion Year Spree, later revised and expanded as Trillion Year Spree). Among his many short stories, perhaps the most famous was ""Super-Toys Last All Summer Long,"" which was adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick and produced and directed after Kubrick's death by Steven Spielberg as A. I. Artificial Intelligence. Brian W. Aldiss passed away in 2017 at the age of 92. Dan Calley has been a professional voice-over artist for over fifteen years. He's voiced many projects, from advertisements to documentaries, and has settled into the world of audiobook narration, carving out a niche as a much-loved narrator in the romance genre as well as working in many other genres. He comes from a stand-up and acting background and is very experienced in character work. He currently has over two hundred audiobooks under his belt and is now part of the Romance Narrators Collective. Dan has recently been nominated for two Goodreads M/M Romance Members' Choice Awards: best audiobook narration of the year for Garrett Leigh's Redemption and all-time favorite m/m narrator. He has also won an Audiobook Reviewer Best Sci-Fi Audiobook award."

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