Future scientists, struggling with overpopulation and the ruin of Earth's natural environment, devise an ambitious plan to manage further growth of human numbers. Earth Government hastily implements the plan--the only alternative, forced population control, is not politically attractive. Adam Hampton, the newest member of the project's organizing team, objects to an overly optimistic use of old and some very new technologies. He suspects that the plan is fundamentally flawed, that the lives of the many young volunteers are at risk. But, in the beginning, he cannot point to anything specific. He can only watch and wait while three of his best friends--and millions of others--begin what they believe will be a great adventure and a new life. The eager volunteers reach their destination, but events don't go as planned. They must soon fight for bare survival--against an ancient menace that had plagued mankind and animalkind since life first began.
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Gene Shiles is a scientist and professor, with many diverse interests. Tribes of the Orange Sun is his first work of fiction. He has a keen interest in Earth's natural environment, and the effects of the growing human population.
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A cautionary, Malthusian tale of a future Earth,
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Tribes Of The Orange Sun is the debut science fiction novel by Gene Shiles and a cautionary, Malthusian tale of a future Earth so burdened by human overpopulation that modern science must take drastic steps. But at what cost? Colonizing a distant planet might prove the to be the answer, but when eager volunteers arrive they soon find themselves locked in a fight for survival against an ancient evil that had plagued all life on Earth since the very beginning of the world. A gripping story of danger, the suffering of the natural environment, and the travails of millions of pioneers, Tribes Of The Orange Sun is highly recommended reading for science fiction enthusiasts.
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