General Information
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 Title:                  The Cyborg from Earth
 Author:                 Charles Sheffield
 Read By:                Michael Russotto
 Treeware released:              1998
 Audiobook released:             2007
 Genre:                  Science Fiction
 Series Name:            Jupiter
 Position in Series:     04

File Information
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 Number of MP3s:         8
 Total Duration:         9:42:56
 

Book Description
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The Messina Dust Cloud is home to a flourishing human population seeking independence from Earth and rumored to be illegally experimenting with nanotechnology to create warrior cyborgs. The misfit heir to a transportation empire, Jefferson Kopal, is sent out to the Cloud in spite of nearly failing his qualification tests for the Space Navy. Once there, he undergoes a classic process of coming of age and of learning that things are not what they seem?things including his family, the Space Navy, the Cloud and, above all, the Cloud's technologies. Young Jeff is an appealing protagonist, embodying a plausible mixture of virtues and vices. Perhaps he's too appealing: Sheffield focuses so closely on him that other interesting and even essential aspects of the story (such as the climactic space battle and the confrontation over control of the Kopal transportation empire) are undeveloped, even somewhat jumbled by comparison. In any case, the novel, the most ambitious yet of the Jupiter series (Putting Up Roots, etc.),succeeds as the edifying entertainment it, and the series, is meant to be. 


Called "the new Arthur C. Clarke" by The Washington Post Book World 
and "a scientist with a fine literary sense" by The Denver Post, Charles 
Sheffield has crafted a an exciting adventure about a frustrated teen 
who just can't seem to do anything right.

Jeff Kopal is heir to a powerful military family. He's got everything 
going for him. Except one thing: Jeff is a total screw-up. His family 
has had it. So when Jeff blows off his naval entrance exams he figures 
his future is basically kaput. Instead, he is being sent by the navy 
into deep space to deal with rebellious cyborgs. How did that happen?-

Jeff will have to find out before it's too late. Otherwise, He may become 
the pawn in someone else's dangerous-and very deadly-game.


