The Book of Xu

By Frank Lloyd Green

The Book of Xue is a tragicomic science fiction story of virtue besieged by folly and spirituality corrupted by human shortcoming. In a fleet of hollowed-out asteroids a quarter of a million pioneers are taking part in a grand voyage of stellar colonization. There are no aliens or superheroes, just muddling, flawed humans: factory workers, military personnel, politicians, artists, scientists, criminals and prophets, false and otherwise. They know little of the Old Earth from which their ancestors fled and are thousands of years removed from the new world their descendants are destined to settle. This edition includes all three volumes of The Book of Xue. In O Greenwall, a world teeming with life is thoughtlessly devoured by a smug, short-sighted society. Meanwhile, a feckless teacher has a religious revelation after stumbling on a heartbreaking message from the past. In Caesar's Sword a sweeping religious revival and preoccupation with trivialities blind a corrupt and inefficient government to the revolution brewing under its nose. In Passion in a Pod a rag-tag alliance of true believers, power-hungry opportunists and the disaffected improbably succeeds in overthrowing the government. Then they turn on each other. Set against this background is the story of Xue, a impassioned bioengineer whose desperate stand against corruption provokes a civil war. Her resemblance to an ancient martyr leads some to consider her divine, and she is dragged, kicking and screaming, to her destiny.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1432778218
• ISBN13: 9781432778217
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 644 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.3" x 7.0"