Chinese diaries, 1941-1946
By: [by] Robert Payne.
Publisher: Weybright and Talley
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
Subjects: Payne, Robert, 1911-  -- Diaries; World War, 1939-1945 -- China; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British
Description: "The Last Starship From Earth is a dystopian novel set in 1968 and 1969, but not the 1968 and 1969 that I remember, or lived through. In the world of this story, Jesus did not die on the cross, but was killed leading an assault on Rome. He was the Messiah that people expected. The government of John Boyd's world is a global government run by Christians along "scientific" lines, where psychologists and sociologists in conjunction with the Church and an AI Pope rule the world. People marry and mate because of their genes and the hero of our story is Haldane IV, M-5, 138270, 3/10/46, a math student of great promise, being the fourth in line of great mathematicians. Unfortunately Haldane gets the hots for Helix, a mere poet. By law and social custom Haldane is expected to have nothing to do with her, but as you'd expect he falls in love with her."--Amazon.com.
Notes: A shortened version of the author's 2 books: Forever China, published in 1945, and China awake, published in 1947.