Book description
The Vorsters Were the blue-robed worshippers of the atom, symbolised by
the Cobalt-60 reactors that glowed blindingly on every alter in their
fast-growing churches. The Harmonists Were the green-robed heretics, a
breakaway faction condemned as icon-adorers, who believed that their
creed was truer to the code of Vorst, the Founder. At the beginning of
the 22nd century, Earth colonies were established on Mars and Venus. But
the ultimate dream - to travel to the stars - was still an
impossibility. A few enlightened men believed that the Vorsters and the
Harmonists could solve this seemingly insurmountable problem, if they
could only forget their differences and work together. But the hatred
between the two factions was too deep to be reconciled - until a
conflict on Venus between a Vorster priest and his Harmonist opponent
resulted in some totally unexpected developments . . . Robert
Silverberg (1935 - ) Robert Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York,
in 1935, and is one of the most prolific authors of all time, writing
not just SF & Fantasy, but extensive non-fiction and a large number
of pseudonymously published erotica novels. In his first years as a
professional writer, his output regularly exceeded a million words per
year. He has won and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards
dozens of times as both writer and editor, and in 2004 received the SFWA
Grand Master Award. Among his many acclaimed and bestselling novels are
A Time of Changes, The Book of Skulls, Dying Inside and Lord Valentine's
Castle. Robert Silverberg lives on the West Coast of the United States
with his wife, author, editor and art critic, Karen Haber.
