SYNOPSIS, "Tribes of the Orange Sun"

    Future scientists, struggling with over population and
    environmental problems, devise an ambitious plan to
    manage further population growth. Earth Government 
    hastily implements the new plan; the only alternative,
    forced population control, is not politically attractive.

    Adam Hampton, the newest member of the population
    project's organizing team, objects to an excessively
    optimistic use of old and some very new technologies.
    He suspects that the plan is fundamentally flawed,
    that the lives of the many young volunteers are at
    risk. But, in the beginning, he cannot point to anything
    specific. He can only watch and wait while three of his 
    best friends - and millions of others - begin what they 
    believe will be a great adventure and a new life.

    The eager volunteers reach their destination, a faraway
    earthlike planet, but events don't go as planned. They
    must soon fight for bare survival against an ancient
    menace - a menace that had plagued growing populations,
    man and animal alike, since life first began.

   

   
       SYNOPSIS, "Pale Yellow Sun"

    The people of Emil, living a relatively idyllic life in a
    bountiful land, learn that they will soon face great Change.
    Like it or not, they must end their isolation and become
    entangled in the most critical problem menacing the
    rest of civilization. All of their concerns, both societal
    and personal, must make way for the new challenge.

    Andy Landis is a young engineer recently graduated from
    prestigious East Quadrant University. He has been offered
    a great new job, and is just beginning a romance with a
    young woman he has known since childhood. His plans take
    a turn when he is asked to take part in a decision crucial
    to his society's future. He soon learns that the choice
    will be between the ruin of his beautiful homeland and
    mass murder - and suspects that the decision
    could be his alone.

    To make this terrible choice, Andy must uncover secrets
    from that society's tragic early days.
    
   

   
       SYNOPSIS, "White Sun Chronicle"

   The citizens of crowded Earth, struggling to deal with
   environmental degradation and lifestyle changes, face a
   more crushing blow: world hunger.

   The global food supply is destroyed and the people flee
   the cities in a bid for survival. Hungry refugees find
   that the only plentiful source of nourishment is what
   had been, until recently, unthinkable.

   Neil Silvers, a senior member of the Earth Senate, is one
   of a lucky few who find sanctuary in a secure building as
   chaos reigns outside. While he contemplates the fate of
   the world, he also dreams about Laura, a young, red-haired
   junior senator with intriguing green eyes.

   The group’s food supply soon runs out. Neil, Laura, and
   a handful of others must venture outside to face a world
   where humans compete with each other as never before. 

   Neil and what’s left of humanity confront their darkest
   fears and soon learn what survival is really about.