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Building Harlequin's Moon : ウィキペディア英語版 | Building Harlequin's Moon
''Building Harlequin's Moon'' is a science fiction novel by Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper. The novel is set in the distant future as a group of space travellers, marooned in an inhospitable solar system, attempt to terraform a moon and create a sufficient civilisation on it to refuel their ship so they can continue to their original destination. ==Plot introduction== A couple of centuries from the present, artificial intelligences and nanotechnology are in widespread use in our solar system and in some cases have caused disasters. Some people do not trust these technologies and plan a simpler life in a distant solar system, where they plan to terraform a planet called Ymir. Once Ymir is habitable, they will abandon use of all advanced technology. Three sleeper ships leave our solar system bound for Ymir, using suspended animation to keep the crew and settlers alive during the sub light-speed journey. While in transit, all communication with the solar system ends; by implication, human civilisation has fallen. The lead ship, ''John Glenn'', is crippled by a design flaw en route, and uses all its antimatter fuel to reach the nearest star system, Apollo. It warns the other two ships, which can correct the flaw, but there is no word from them about whether they reach Ymir. The ''John Glenn'' creates a substantial moon around the gas giant Harlequin by colliding several smaller moons together, and give it an atmosphere, seas, and the beginnings of an ecosystem. This takes 60,000 years, with almost all the passengers of the ship in hibernation during the entire time. The person in charge of creating and terraforming the new moon, Selene, is Gabriel. Apart from a brief prologue, the novel begins as the second generation of people born on Selene approach adulthood.
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