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Shop nowDawn for a Distant Earth
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Learn moreThousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only by a few degenerate or mutated human outcasts. But among them is a boy of immense native intelligence and determination who grows up to become the force behind a plan to make Earth flower again. He is, if not immortal, at least very long-lived, and he plans to build an independent power base out in the galaxy and force the galactic empire to devote centuries and immense resources to the restoration of the ecology of Earth.
L. E. Modesitt, Jr., is the bestselling author of the fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, Corean Chronicles, and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante, the Ecolitan novels, the Forever Hero Trilogy, and Archform: Beauty. Besides a writer, Modesitt has been a US Navy pilot, a director of research for a political campaign, legislative assistant, and staff director for a US congressman, director of legislation and congressional relations for the US Environmental Protection Agency, a consultant on environmental, regulatory, and communications issues, and a college lecturer. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.
Kyle McCarley is a graduate of the University of Southern California and an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. His credits include audiobooks, video games, anime, cartoons, commercials, radio dramas, e-learning software, podcasts, voicemail auto-attendants, and even a toy plush monkey. He can be heard in television shows such as Durarara!! and Nickelodeon's Every Witch Way; games such as Unepic, Dragon Nest, Vindictus, and MapleStory; audiobooks such as the Earphones Award winner The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison and The Prince of Shadows by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine; commercials for the web, radio, and television; and much, much more.