Wheelworld

by Harry Harrison

Book Overview

Book 2 of the To the Stars Trilogy This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553207741
• ISBN13: 9780553207743
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

FROM BACK COVER

WHEELWORLD Branded a rebel and traitor, Jan Kulozik was exiled by Earth's oppressive masters to serve as engineer to the agricultural colony world of Halvmork. Here, on this harsh, unforgiving planet turning slowly from endless day to endless night, Jan found tens of thousands of people working as virtual slaves to feed earth's millions, under the brutal rule of powerful families. Then the lifeline to Earth was cut, and Halvmork was plunged into chaos. Jan Kulozik rallied the people for their own survival, setting out on a perilous trek beset by treachery, sabotage and the fury of nature, to lead the people of Wheelworld to their new destiny. TO THE STARS Harry Harrison, author of West of Eden and Make Room, Make Room, is one of science fiction's most popular and widely read authors. To the Stars is his epic saga of mankind's struggle to regain its freedom and reclaim the stars.

Exile on a harsh world

Jan Kulozik, having been caught working for the resistance in the previous book, has been given scentence of exile on a remote planet who's unusual conditions make it an ideal place for farming, with a once every four years upheavel as the inhabitant workers must move to the opposite pole of the planet or die from extreme heat. It's been over twelve years and it's time for the migration, however, the spaceships which come every season change before they must move haven't come, forcing them to take thier crops with them and make the perilous journey through the planets' summer zone with tempratures over two hundred degrees, and other dangers associated with the trip in the form of the road connecting the polar continents which is starting to wear down after several hundred years.This book contains little of the plot of the previous book, and could be read independantly, however the third book in the trillogy does play back into the first book.An exciting novel, containing politics of the small planetary population and revoloution.

Wheelworld

A great masterpiece of science fiction explaining one man's search for the truth amongst many rearrangements of the false reality that he is led to believe. Although this book is exceeded by its two trilogy partners it does not lose its power to reach into your mind and allow you to picture the contents in detail. You get to see what you are reading in your own mind eye.