Featured Book Series #3 begins at Crazy Eights on LEA 9 with Harlan Thompson’s novelization of the 1972 screenplay for Silent Running, by Mike Cimino, Deric Washburn, and Steven Bochco.
In the future, all plant life on Earth has become extinct. A few specimens have been preserved in enormous, greenhouse-like geodesic domes attached to a fleet of space freighters, currently just outside the orbit of Saturn.
Freeman Lowell, one of four crewmen aboard the freighter Valley Forge, is the resident botanist and ecologist who carefully preserves a variety of plants for their eventual return to Earth and the reforestation of the planet. Lowell spends most of his time in the domes, both cultivating the crops and attending to the animal life.
Then, orders come from Earth to jettison and destroy the domes with nuclear charges and return the freighters to commercial service. Orders Lowell’s crew mates are only too happy to follow if it means a return to Earth. Lowell, however, is less than sanguine about this new turn of events.
Come a few minutes early and explore the Valley Forge, now docked in Crazy Eights' Featured Book Area, on LEA 9.Gyro Muggins, live in voice.
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