The Fleet Of Stars

In Fleet of Stars, Poul Anderson brings back the wildly colorful Anson Guthrie, his iconoclastic hero from Harvest of Stars. The staid, somber people of Earth are not only dependent on technology, they are all but ruled by machine intelligence. Suspecting a conspiracy to suppress humankind's last vestiges of freedom, Guthrie begins a dangerous journey across the realm of the comets, the asteroids, and the stars themselves, willing to risk his life to preserve humanity's ability to roam the universe.
The fourth novel in Anderson's superlative visionary series brings back the wildly colorful Anson Guthrie, the iconoclastic hero from Harvest of Stars. Suspecting a conspiracy to suppress the last vestiges of freedom known to humankind, Guthrie sets out on a dangerous and hair-raising journey encompassing the comets, the asteroids, and the stars themselves. 352 pp. Targeted print ads. Online publicity.