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The story takes place in the year 2363. The protagonist is Cadet Larry Stark, a 20-year-old, fresh graduate of the Space Patrol Academy who comes from a long line of Space Patrol commanders. As the story begins, he is embarking on the customary final training cruise on the interstellar ship Carden.
Revolt on Alpha C. Robert Silverberg. 3.36. 119 ratings25 reviews. With a mighty twist, the Space Ship Garden lunges into overdrive and shoots out into space. Ahead lies Alpha C IV, eerie world of three suns. But the Carden arrives on Alpha C right in the thick of a revolution against Earth. Treason!
26 de oct. de 2012 · John Booth. Oct 26, 2012 6:30 AM. Revisiting Robert Silverberg's Revolt on Alpha C. Reading a 57-year-old science fiction novel requires suspension of some disbelief, of course, but if...
17 de may. de 2010 · A sci-fi novel published in 1966 by New York: Scholastic Book Services. The book is about a rebellion on a space colony called Alpha C, where the colonists are forced to live in a rigid and oppressive society.
8 de nov. de 2019 · Gist: A new space patrol cadet takes his first interstellar trip to a planet of Alpha Centauri, where he learns that several of the Earth colonies there want freedom from Earth.
From the novel’s first sentence — “The stopover at Pluto was brief, but for Larry Stark it seemed to be much too long” — the reader, young or old, is quite helplessly sucked in. Inaugurating the start of one of science fiction’s most beloved careers, Revolt on Alpha C surely holds a place in literary history, and is a lot of fun ...
Larry Stark's life is the Patrol — until he's ordered to smash the freedom fighters on colony world Alpha C IV, as his own shipmates desert to join the rebellion. Loyalty to the Patrol will make Stark a mass murderer.
