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In
an eerily possible near future, the American empire seeks to dominate
the world through the weaponization of space. By manipulating the voting
system in the American protectorates (which include Canada), General Foreman
and his privatized army of Lifeist Christian soldiers has engineered a
military coup. It is up to the last civilian head of NASA, former Canadian
Andrew Tremaine, to help the resistance forces save his cherished space
station, Earthbaby, and its crew. On the station, Earthbabys Social
Dynamics Officer, Lillith Shawnadithit, faced with unexpected crises and
betrayals, inspires the crew to prevent Earthbaby from becoming Foremans
military platform for space domination with surprising results.
In a gripping tale, as researched and thought-provoking as his classic
Canadian novel Riverrun, Peter Such probes the psychological as well as
physical, religious and cultural changes about to overwhelm North American
society in the next few decades. Earthbaby transports us to a world of
bizarre social interactions in the isolation of deep space in a future
fragmented by cults and factions, numbed by technology, yet striving for
meaning.
Peter Such was born
in England and came as a youngster to Canada in 1953. He worked loading
freightcars for the Canadian National Railways and in uranium mines at
Elliot Lake. He was a working class member of the group that revitalized
Canadian Literature in the 70s
no one in Canadian Literature
is as eclectic as Peter Such (Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature).
He has written tv series, film documentary, drama, opera librettos, academic
works, poetry, short stories, nonfiction and novels. He is also a founder/publisher
of Impulse magazine and a former editor of Books in Canada. He is married
to artist Joyce Kline. After many years of working in other genres he
completed his new novel, Earthbaby, while living in Finland, courtesy
of an award from the Finnish Academy. |
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