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Country United States Publication date 1980 Pages 186 pp Originally published 1980 Genre Science Fiction OCLC 7051228 | 3.2/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Paperback) ISBN 0-441-14897-2 Publisher Ace Books | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Direct Descent (1980) is a short science fiction novel by Frank Herbert. It was based on the short story "Pack Rat Planet" published in 1954 in Astounding Science-Fiction.
Plot summary
Set in the far future, it consists of two stories about how the peaceful Archivists of the library planet Earth have to deal with warmongers arriving and trying to exploit knowledge for power. It contains a lot of pictures and is aimed at children or adolescents.
References
Direct Descent Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA