« Prev Home The World is Round Prologue Chapter One: Signing On (In the Classical Style) Chapter Two: Casting Off Chapter Three: First Mistakes Chapter Four: Introductions for Planet and Explorer I Chapter Five: Introductions for Planet and Explorer II Chapter Six: A Propitious Arrival and a Hasty Retreat Chapter Seven: Death Row Chapter Eight: The Treasure Chest Chapter Nine: Dialogue on Two World Systems Chapter Ten: Conjectures and Refutations Chapter Eleven: Homecoming Chapter Twelve: And Back Again Chapter Thirteen: Turn Back the Clock: A Girl Alone Chapter Fourteen: Again Turn Back the Clock: The Night Begins Chapter Fifteen: A Brief Glimpse Underground Chapter Sixteen: The First Crack in the Sky Chapter Seventeen: Fire or Stars; Personalities vs. Universes Chapter Eighteen: Confronting the Past, Confronting the Present, Confronting the Future Chapter Nineteen: Trapped by a Planet and a Friend Chapter Twenty: Daybreak in the North: The Journey Begins Chapter Twenty-One: Daybreak in the South: Other Journeys Begin Chapter Twenty-Two: The Road to Cathay Chapter Twenty-Three: So Near and Yet So Far Chapter Twenty-Four: Two Epiphanies Chapter Twenty-Five: Swept Away Chapter Twenty-Six: A Gathering of Friends Chapter Twenty-Seven: Another Homecoming Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Second Gathering of Friends Chapter Twenty-Nine: To the Underworld Chapter Thirty: Two Problems Chapter Thirty-One: In the Realm of the Gods Chapter Thirty-Two: Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter Chapter Thirty-Three: Education Chapter Thirty-Four: The Logic of Scientific Discovery Chapter Thirty-Five: Dialogue Concerning a Third World System Chapter Thirty-Six: The Great Siege Chapter Thirty-Seven: Final Convergence, or the New Cosmology Appendix: Days and Nights on Patra-Bannk (Revised 2020) A Note from the Technical Illustrator 2020 Autobiographical Note 2020 Back Cover Next » Prologue
The Universe has become old and craggy and has turned around on itself, now
falling inward to the primordial chaos from which it emerged some forty or
fifty billion years earlier. Civilizations have come and gone. We focus our
attention on one. Whether or not the inhabitants resemble humans is
unclear, but because they act like humans, we might as well take them to
look that way, too.…
« Prev Home The World is Round Prologue Chapter One: Signing On (In the Classical Style) Chapter Two: Casting Off Chapter Three: First Mistakes Chapter Four: Introductions for Planet and Explorer I Chapter Five: Introductions for Planet and Explorer II Chapter Six: A Propitious Arrival and a Hasty Retreat Chapter Seven: Death Row Chapter Eight: The Treasure Chest Chapter Nine: Dialogue on Two World Systems Chapter Ten: Conjectures and Refutations Chapter Eleven: Homecoming Chapter Twelve: And Back Again Chapter Thirteen: Turn Back the Clock: A Girl Alone Chapter Fourteen: Again Turn Back the Clock: The Night Begins Chapter Fifteen: A Brief Glimpse Underground Chapter Sixteen: The First Crack in the Sky Chapter Seventeen: Fire or Stars; Personalities vs. Universes Chapter Eighteen: Confronting the Past, Confronting the Present, Confronting the Future Chapter Nineteen: Trapped by a Planet and a Friend Chapter Twenty: Daybreak in the North: The Journey Begins Chapter Twenty-One: Daybreak in the South: Other Journeys Begin Chapter Twenty-Two: The Road to Cathay Chapter Twenty-Three: So Near and Yet So Far Chapter Twenty-Four: Two Epiphanies Chapter Twenty-Five: Swept Away Chapter Twenty-Six: A Gathering of Friends Chapter Twenty-Seven: Another Homecoming Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Second Gathering of Friends Chapter Twenty-Nine: To the Underworld Chapter Thirty: Two Problems Chapter Thirty-One: In the Realm of the Gods Chapter Thirty-Two: Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter Chapter Thirty-Three: Education Chapter Thirty-Four: The Logic of Scientific Discovery Chapter Thirty-Five: Dialogue Concerning a Third World System Chapter Thirty-Six: The Great Siege Chapter Thirty-Seven: Final Convergence, or the New Cosmology Appendix: Days and Nights on Patra-Bannk (Revised 2020) A Note from the Technical Illustrator 2020 Autobiographical Note 2020 Back Cover Next »