Heorot Series by Larry Niven (with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes)
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Overview: These are the books in the Heorot series. They tell the story of the first human colony on Avalon, fourth planet of Tau Ceti.
Genre: Sci-Fi
The Legacy of Heorot
Two hundred colonists arrive on Avalon to found a new community, having made the 100-year journey from Earth in suspended animation on the starship Geographic (the expedition is funded by the National Geographic Society). The colonists, all selected for their outstanding physical and mental attributes, make a terrible discovery: though the suspended animation technology permitted them to survive the journey worked well enough, it had unforeseeable side effects due to the unprecedented duration of its use. Their intelligence and reasoning skill are damaged. Some are only mildly afflicted, while others have mental retardation. One of them was once a renowned scientist, but now has the mind of a prepubescent child. Eight of the colonists could not be reanimated at all. The book opens with the colonists learning how to live without the sharp and nimble minds they all once had.
Beowulf’s Children
As the story opens, the second generation of Avalon’s colonists are coming of age – and the potential for teenage rebellion has never been so potentially vicious.
The original colonists, or "Earth Born", though selected for optimal physical and mental attributes, suffered varying levels of brain damage due to unforeseeable effects of long periods of chemically and temperature-induced hibernation, necessary to survive the long journey to the planet. Their children, the "Star Born", have no such disability – they are geniuses with "feeble-minded" parents. On top of that, the Grendel Wars are still fresh in the minds of the Earth Born, in which their short-sightedness nearly led to their extermination. The battle-proven yet often impaired elders now practice a dogma of zealous caution that might have once tried their own patience, and which the brilliant and overwhelmingly arrogant Star Born find nothing short of cowardice and tyranny.
Adding to the strain are those who made the journey to Avalon as cargo, the "Bottle Babies" – dormant embryos grown in artificial wombs. Not only are they not subject to the brain damage of the Earth Born, they were raised collectively, lacking even the familial ties of their fellow Star Born – and feel even less obliged to obey. Aaron Tragon, perhaps the smartest of them, is more than just rebellious – he may be insane.
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