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MediaDB / «In the Darkness of Eden" by Chris Beckett: download fb2, read online
About the book: 2016 / In this bizarre world, every living creature has three pairs of limbs and two hearts, trees breathe and warm the atmosphere, flowers and stones glow, although there is neither sun nor moon in the sky, and the tropical forest paradise is surrounded on all sides by a ring of imperishable snow. And here live people who call themselves simply “Family”. All of them are descendants of two earthlings, Adam and Eve, unwillingly, who more than one hundred and fifty years ago called this alien, gloomy planet Eden. They believe that the day will come when the Earth will remember its children. And then flying boats will descend from the sky to transport everyone - both the living and the dead - under the gentle warm light of a dazzlingly bright yellow star. But in any society, even the most conservative and stable, there will definitely be fidgets and rebels who go against the system and do not recognizing the authorities of the past. This is young John Krasnosvet, in pursuit of the common good, ready for sacrilege that threatens to destroy the Family. Abandoning his previous paths, he intends to go through the cold and darkness of Eden to find his place in it... and find out the whole truth about his world.