Harvest of Stars
The Harvest of Stars Series, Book 1

This started out as a slog. As cool as character as Kyra was, her faux-Spanish was really annoying. The Guthrie character reminded me of Robin Broadhead from Frederic Pohl’s Heechee series. The ideas are really good though and I liked the way he described the migration to Demeter. Clearly a libertar......more

I first read Anderson as a teen back in the 70s and had forgotten how good a writer he was. This is the artist at his peak, a dazzling and deep plunge into what the critics call “hard” science fiction, but it’s so much more than just that. A great read on many different levels.......more

I've been re-reading (and reading for the first time) a lot of Anderson lately. I read a bunch of Flandry, a van Rijn, Three Hearts and Three Lions, and a Midsummer Tempest. I loved them, always have, and certainly the latter two go on my Favorites list. But hitting this one, for the first time and a......more

Anson Guthrie, the head of Fireball - a global space conglomerate - was the first man to be downloaded into a spaceship and visit Demeter, the Earthlike planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A. When the upload returns the meatbody Anson is dead and his archive copy has been purloined to be used as propaga......more