Prisoners of Tomorrow

• ENDGAME ENIGMA
  
  • PREFACE TO BAEN BOOKS EDITION
    
  • PROLOGUE
    
  • CHAPTER ONE
    
  • CHAPTER TWO
    
  • CHAPTER THREE
    
  • CHAPTER FOUR
    
  • CHAPTER FIVE
    
  • CHAPTER SIX
    
  • CHAPTER SEVEN
    
  • CHAPTER EIGHT
    
  • CHAPTER NINE
    
  • CHAPTER TEN
    
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN
    
  • CHAPTER TWELVE
    
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN
    
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN
    
  • CHAPTER FIFTEEN
    
  • CHAPTER SIXTEEN
    
  • CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
    
  • CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
    
  • CHAPTER NINETEEN
    
  • CHAPTER TWENTY
    
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
    
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
    
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
    
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
    
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
    
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
    
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
    
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
    
  • CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
    
  • CHAPTER THIRTY
    
  • CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
    
  • CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
    
  • CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
    
  • CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
    
  • CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
    
  • CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
    
  • CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
    
  • CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
    
  • CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
    
  • CHAPTER FORTY
    
  • CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
    
  • CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
    
  • CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
    
  • CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
    
  • CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
    
  • CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
    
  • CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
    
  • CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
    
  • CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
    
  • CHAPTER FIFTY
    
  • CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
    
  • CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
    
  • CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
    
  • CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
    
  • CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
    
  • CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
    
  • CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
    
  • CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
    
  • EPILOGUE
    
• VOYAGE FROM YESTERYEAR
  
  • PROLOGUE
    
  • PART ONE
    
    • CHAPTER ONE
      
    • CHAPTER TWO
      
    • CHAPTER THREE
      
    • CHAPTER FOUR
      
    • CHAPTER FIVE
      
    • CHAPTER SIX
      
    • CHAPTER SEVEN
      
    • CHAPTER EIGHT
      
    • CHAPTER NINE
      
  • PART TWO
    
    • CHAPTER TEN
      
    • CHAPTER ELEVEN
      
    • CHAPTER TWELVE
      
    • CHAPTER THIRTEEN
      
    • CHAPTER FOURTEEN
      
    • CHAPTER FIFTEEN
      
    • CHAPTER SIXTEEN
      
    • CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
      
    • CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
      
    • CHAPTER NINETEEN
      
    • CHAPTER TWENTY
      
    • CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
      
    • CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
      
    • CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
      
    • CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
      
    • CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
      
    • CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
      
  • PART THREE
    
    • CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
      
    • CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
      
    • CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
      
    • CHAPTER THIRTY
      
    • CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
      
    • CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
      
    • CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
      
    • CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
      
    • CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
      
    • CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
      
    • CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
      
    • CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
      
    • CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
      
  • EPILOGUE
    

TWO EPIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS BY A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME:
New York Times
bestseller
Endgame Enigma
and Promethius Award winner
Voyage from Yesteryear
.

Endgame Enigma
:

New York Times
bestseller. In the near future, Russia has built
Valentina Tereshkova
, a space station a mile in diameter, a shining city in space. Its builders claim that the orbiting space city is a peaceful Utopian experiment, but American intelligence reports raise the ominous possibility that the space colony is actually a weapon built by the last heirs of the Soviet dictators.When scientist Paula Bryce and trained agent Lew McCain travel to the station to investigate, they become prisoners in the station's high-tech prison facilities. Escape seems impossible but if they can't escape, Armageddon is inevitable. . . .

Voyage from Yesteryear
:

Prometheus Award-winning novel. Late in our century, as nuclear war loomed, Americans sent a colonization spaceship manned by robots to an Earthline planet in the Alpha Centauri system. On arrival, the robot crew used recorded DNA information to bring forth a generation of infants, whom they educated in accordance with the principles enunciated by the founders of the American government. Generations later, Earth has rebuilt after the war, unfortunately with authoritarian governments which now can send manned starships with more colonists to the new world. But their distant relatives are serious about all that life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the inalienable rights of the individual stuff, principles to which the reconstructed America no longer gives even lip service. Those uppity colonials have such an
attitude
. . . .

Books by James P. Hogan

THE GIANTS SERIES

The Two Moons

The Two Worlds

Mission to Minerva

Code of the Lifemaker

The Immortality Option

The Cradle of Saturn

The Anguished Dawn

Bug Park

Echoes of an Alien Sky

Endgame Enigma

The Genesis Machine

Inherit the Stars

The Legend That Was Earth

Migration

Moon Flower

The Multiplex Man

Paths to Otherwhere

The Proteus Operation

Realtime Interrupt

Thrice Upon a Time

The Two Faces of Tomorrow

Voyage from Yesteryear

Worlds in Chaos
(omnibus)

Cyber Rogues
(omnibus)

COLLECTIONS

Catastrophes, Chaos and Convulsions

Kicking the Sacred Cow

Martian Knightlife

Minds, Machines and Evolution

Rockets, Redheads & Revolution

PRISONERS OF TOMORROW

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright © 1987 by James P. Hogan Endgame Enigma

Copyright © 1982 by James P. Hogan Voyage From Yesteryear

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

A Baen Books Original

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ISBN: 978-1-4767-8065-8

Cover art by Kurt Miller

First Baen paperback printing, July 2015

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hogan, James P.

Prisoners of tomorrow / by James P. Hogan.

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ISBN 978-1-4767-8065-8 (omni trade pb)

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2015013073

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ENDGAME
ENIGMA

Acknowledgments

I would like to express my gratitude to the following people for their help and advice in writing this book:

Brent Warner of NASA’s Goddard Space Center, Maryland, who spent many hours thinking about pendulums, gyroscopes, vortexes, and rotating geometries, and gallantly placed his sanity at risk by sharing for a while the weird kind of world that science-fiction writers inhabit. Jim Waligora of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston, for information on the physiology of low pressures and spacesuit design. Steve Fairchild of Moaning Cavern, Murphys, California, for thoughts on just about everything and his invaluable penchant for devil’s advocacy. Lynx Crowe of Berkeley, California, for suggestions on security methods. David Robb of Applied Perception Technologies, Minneapolis, for lots of data on space colonies. Cheryl Robinson, who helped hatch Lewis and his companions from a pile of barren notes. Owen Lock of Ballantine Books, for sharing some of his immense knowledge of the world of military intelligence. Kathy Sobansky, for her assistance with Russian language translations. And Takumi Shibano, for his guidance in penetrating Oriental inscrutability.

And then there was Jackie, who doubled as electrician, plumber, handyman, auto mechanic, gardener, chauffeur, and carpenter, as well as being a mother to three small, rowdy boys—and never once complained about the hours a writer works. She made the book possible; they made it necessary.

Dedication

To EDWARD JOSEPH, my third son in a row, who,

after three daughters in a row, restored my faith in mathematics

by proving that the law of averages does work in the end,

provided one gives it long enough.

PREFACE
TO BAEN BOOKS EDITION

The original Bantam “Spectra” hardcover edition of
Endgame Enigma
was published in August 1987. When I conceived and wrote the book, which would have been in 1985 through 1986, neither I nor very many others—if any—guessed that the Soviet empire, which had withstood through the best part of a century so many predictions of imminent demise, was indeed tottering into its final few years, and by 1991 would be in the process of becoming history.

The speed with which these events overtook the astonished world may be gauged from my own experience as a guest of the annual European science-fiction convention, which was held that year, 1991, in Volgograd (the former Stalingrad), in the USSR. A few days before I was due to leave on an Aeroflot flight from Dublin, an agitated travel agent called me to ask if I still wanted to make the trip.