Orbitsville (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Shaw
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—alien civilization
- Time of Work: Three or four centuries in the future
- Setting: Earth, the planet Sagania, and the Dyson Sphere called Orbitsville
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Earth, Real estate, Refugees
- Locales: Earth, Fictional planets
The Plot
Starflight, the wealthiest and most powerful multinational company on Earth, holds a monopoly on space travel and transportation in the future. Although interstellar flight has been possible for a century and Starflight was created with the intent of discovering new planets for colonization, only one planet, Terranova, has been slated for immigration. Afraid of losing money to competition, the company attempts to hold onto its monopoly by preventing the discovery of other worlds. Were additional worlds to be discovered, the cheap land that would become available would...
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