Julie Forward Fuller Books

Rescued From Paradise is the fourth of four sequels to the science fiction novel Rocheworld by Robert L. Forward (Baen Books, New York, 1990). The other sequels Return to Rocheworld, Ocean Under the Ice and Marooned on Eden. In Rescued From Paradise , the children of the human explorers marooned decades ago on the Earth-like moon, "Eden," in the Barnard Star System, have to decide whether to stay on their idyllic birthplace with the friendly jelly-blob "flouwen" and the slow-moving tree-like "jollys", or to return to compete in the fast-paced combined human/robot civilization of the Solar System.

Return to Rocheworld is the first of four sequels to the science fiction novel Rocheworld by Robert L. Forward (Baen Books, New York, 1990). The other sequels that follow this one Ocean Under the Ice, Marooned On Eden, and Rescued From Paradise. In Return to Rocheworld, the humans from Earth and their multiton jelly-blob alien friends, the "flouwen" from the ocean-covered lobe of the double-planet Rocheworld, fly to the desert-dry lobe of Rocheworld where they discover ancient ancestors of the flouwen, adapted to the harsh life on the dry lobe.