Gravity Dreams
Books / Hardcover
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ISBN: 031286826X / Publisher: Tor Books, July 1999
A young man banished from his fundamental religious home must learn to survive in his new space community, where his unexpected piloting skills bring him success until, in deep space, he meets a God-like entity
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Gravity Dreams is a stand-alone action adventure, filled with conflict and featuring Modesitt's trademark: a confrontation with difficult moral and ethical questions invoked by the story.Set in the distant future on Earth, our hero, Tyndel, born and raised in a conservative and rigidly structured religious culture, is exiled to a more technologically advanced civilization. He must adjust quickly to this space-faring civilization, which his own righteous nation considers evil and peopled by demons. Fortunately, he has the rare talent required to become a space pilot. What no one expects, least of all Tyndel, is that he might meet God, or at least a vastly superior being, in space.
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