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I Died in Rio | 
 enlarge | Author: Arsen Pankovich
Publisher: A. Pankovich Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Sales Rank: 4440472
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 503
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0967210100
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780967210100
ASIN: 0967210100
Publication Date: November 5, 1999
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Product Description
The Earth is at the end of the trajectory of an enormous celestial body, known as the Demon, and scientists are working day and night to invent a way of destroying the object or at least deflecting it and avoiding the inevitable collision. Meanwhile there is other work that must be done, there are other goals that must be achieved. Remote cloning, robot parenting, and other technological advances must be perfected in order for the human race to be saved. And in the limited time still available before the collision, ethnic problems must be solved so that the populations of the Earth may face the annihilation of the planet - of all life and of the eternal future - with dignity. But every project, every approach to the solution of the problems that lie ahead is met with opposition, as the peoples of the Earth, and their leaders, fight about the ethical, religious and philosophical issues of playing God, about immortality, the soul and reincarnation, and about the cloning and memory manipulation needed to restart life in space. The hero of this book is a man with his own ethnic understandings, who is in charge of the ethnic and the biological departments of the newly formed World Government. Forging ahead on questions such as how to select a truly multinational and multiracial group of people for the manned space ships scheduled to leave the Earth ahead of the collision date, he is undaunted by political or social pressure. He follows an internal compass unfailingly pointed straight ahead. How do the populations of the world face a disaster of ultimate proportions over a period of five years? Are human beings capable of living out a greater and deeper humanity than they have heretofore found necessary? Will people learn to live together, or will they destroy each other, with no hope of reprieve? Can the peoples of the Earth be saved?
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