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»Hier sangen früher Vögel« spielt in einer Welt, die dem Untergang entgegengeht. Eine kleine Gruppe von Menschen will den Kollaps der Zivilisation überleben und den Fortbestand der Menschheit sichern. Sie gründen ein neues Gemeinwesen, doch in ihm entwickeln sich so repressive Strukturen, dass es selbst dem Untergang geweiht scheint…

The first man to reach the spaceship was Obie Cox. Until then Obie had been known only for the possession of one of the most beautiful male bodies in creation.

After the spaceship, Obie Cox became known throughout the world. Obie was touched by the hand of God, and that hand lay heavy on him. But he knew his duty was to carry the message placed in his hands to the world… the strong message, the truthful message… the message of hate!

La posibilidad de producir un gran número de individuos a partir de un mismo material genético (clonación) no es nueva ni en el campo de la investigación científica ni en el de la ciencia ficción.

Pero faltaba una obra que hiciera con el tema de los clones lo que un Asimov y un Lem con la robótica o un Van Vogt y un Kuttner con la telepatía: llevar a cabo su sociología novelada, analizar con detalle la nueva cultura a la que podrían dar lugar.

Y eso es precisamente lo que hace Kate Wilhelm en , premio Hugo a la mejor novela de 1977, y llamada a convertirse en un clásico del género, en la medida en que da cumplida expresión, consolidando, a uno de sus temas más inquietantes.

PROGRAMMED FOR DESTRUCTION

In a way, they were the same, the man and the machine. Both had been ordered to do one thing - kill.

The robot had been created to wreak revenge on the humans who had brutally conquered its planet.

The man was the product of years of training by an Earth that had set out to take over the Universe.

Now the two faced each other in the icy reaches of the galaxy. The robot, with its calculating machine of a brain, its impenetrable force shield, its deadly laser beam. The man, with the kind of nerve that refused to admit the odds against survival…

Massive environmental changes and global disease, attributed to large-scale pollution, cause the collapse of civilization around the world. One large, well-to-do extended family sets up an isolated community. However, as the death toll mounts (due to a variety of causes) the family begins cloning themselves to survive. This is due to universal infertility. It is assumed that as time passes, fertility will return and sexual reproduction will be possible once again. However, when the clones come of age, they reject the idea of sexual reproduction in favor of further cloning. The original members of the community, too old and outnumbered by the clones to resist, are forced to accept the new social order.

As time passes, the new generations of clones are weaker (physically and mentally) than their predecessors. Since they are cloned in groups of 4–10 individuals, they grow to depend on each other enormously, and lose all sense of individuality. They become afraid of being alone in any way, and eventually lose all sense of creativity. In one part of the novel, a snowman is made, and the clones are unable to identify it as a man, seeing only snow. Towards the end, the community is found to have been wiped out entirely due to natural disasters, but mainly by the destruction to the mill, which had been the energy source the community had depended on to survive. Only a few select people had survived, and among them was a man named Mark, who had foreseen the death of the community and had prepared for it.

Gli eredi della Terra

Vinto il premio Hugo per miglior romanzo in 1977.

Nominato per il premio Nebula per miglior romanzo in 1977.

Nadciaga kryzys, jakiego ludzkość jeszcze nie doświadczyła. Zmiany klimatu, choroby roślin, brak surowców, klęska głodu. Skazy genetyczne i napromieniowanie grożą plagą bezpłodności. Czy ludzkość może przetrwać? Grupa naukowców pracujących nad klonowaniem tworzy w górach enklawę, która pozwoli przetrwać nielicznym, ale jak uchronić się przed bezpłodnością, jak zachować ludzi przy życiu. Nauka podpowiada rozwiązania, ale w warunkach doświadczalnych eksperyment wymyka się spod kontroli, a zakładane cele są wciąż modyfikowane. Czy człowiek ma przed sobą przyszłość? Wspaniała powieść Kate Wilhelm nie pozostawi cię obojętnym.

Nominowana do nagrody Nebula w 1976. Otrzymała nagrody Hugo, Locusa i Jupitera w 1977.