Colony

Summary

In the future, everything is different—but nothinghas changed.

“The Earth has been poisonedby pollution, choked by overpopulation, and ravaged by the mindless greed ofpower-hungry corporations. A fragile peace is threatened by landlessrevolutionaries, and global anarchy seems imminent.
Yet a single ray of hoperemains…”

Island One is a celestial utopia, and David Adams is its mostperfect creation—a man with a brain as advanced as any computer and a body freeof human frailties. But David is a prisoner—a captive of the colony that createdhim—destined to spend the days of his life in an island-sized cylinder thatcircles a doomed and desperate home planet. Thousands of miles below him, aworld trembles; its people cringe in terror and despair in anticipation of animpending apocalypse. And fate has cast one extraordinary human in the role ofsavior. For David Adams has a plan—one that will ultimately ensure thesalvation of his species … or its annihilation.