Kirinyaga. Kilimanjaro
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Kirinyaga. Kilimanjaro
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The twenty-second century. Africa is experiencing an ecological catastrophe. The slopes of Kenya's sacred Mount Kirinyaga have been urbanized and the land poisoned. Huge herds of zebras, rhinos, elephants and lions - all the savannah's fauna and flora remain only on video footage. But Koriba, a modern and educated man from the Kikuyu tribe, knows that life was different for his people centuries ago, and he is determined to restore the utopia - to establish a colony not on Earth, but on a terraformed planet he proudly names Kirinyaga.
As a mundumugu - a witch doctor - Koriba leads the colonists. Bringing back the ancient customs and strict laws of the Kikuyu people, he single-handedly decides their fate. He must face many challenges to the colony's survival, from a brilliant girl whose brilliant intellect could jeopardize their traditional ways to the interference of a tech-support company that has the power to nullify the colony's charter. At the same time, Koriba, unbeknownst to her people, maintains a computer link with the rest of humanity.
Ironically, the Kirinyaga experiment threatens to collapse - not because of violence or greed, but because of humanity's unquenchable thirst for knowledge. The Kikuyu people cannot stop time, just as their planet cannot stop revolving around its sun.
The Kikuyu tribe of East Africa tried to create a utopia on the terraformed planet of Kirinyaga. It all went wrong. Now, a century later, the Maasai tribe has studied the history of Kirinyaga, analyzed all the mistakes, and is ready to create a Maasai utopia on the planet Kilimanjaro, named after the mountain that is home to their own god.
Renowned for his majestic imagination and magnificent worlds, winner and nominee of more than one hundred and fifty literary awards for his outstanding work, Mike Resnick has rightly earned his place as one of the genre's finest storytellers.
The works are annotated with commentary by the author and leading fiction writers.
As a mundumugu - a witch doctor - Koriba leads the colonists. Bringing back the ancient customs and strict laws of the Kikuyu people, he single-handedly decides their fate. He must face many challenges to the colony's survival, from a brilliant girl whose brilliant intellect could jeopardize their traditional ways to the interference of a tech-support company that has the power to nullify the colony's charter. At the same time, Koriba, unbeknownst to her people, maintains a computer link with the rest of humanity.
Ironically, the Kirinyaga experiment threatens to collapse - not because of violence or greed, but because of humanity's unquenchable thirst for knowledge. The Kikuyu people cannot stop time, just as their planet cannot stop revolving around its sun.
The Kikuyu tribe of East Africa tried to create a utopia on the terraformed planet of Kirinyaga. It all went wrong. Now, a century later, the Maasai tribe has studied the history of Kirinyaga, analyzed all the mistakes, and is ready to create a Maasai utopia on the planet Kilimanjaro, named after the mountain that is home to their own god.
Renowned for his majestic imagination and magnificent worlds, winner and nominee of more than one hundred and fifty literary awards for his outstanding work, Mike Resnick has rightly earned his place as one of the genre's finest storytellers.
The works are annotated with commentary by the author and leading fiction writers.
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