Eight Keys to Eden

Mark Clifton

Feb 2014 · eStar Books

About this eBook

Not long after landing on Eden, un-inhabited planet, every human made artifact disappears. When the colony goes silent and fails to answer any communications Earth’s government goes into a panic and turns to the Extrapolators, a group of people who have been trained to question every belief. A probationary Extrapolator is sent to Eden in the expectation that he will graduate into the ranks of the Extrapolators if he solves whatever problems he finds there. Even with his special training he is not prepared for the nature of the disaster that struck the colony, but eventually by an entirely new way of thinking he finds the key to what has happened.

Ratings and reviews

First read this when I was 12, now at 72 I still enjoy it. The message that someone will one day ask the next question that will lead us into the galaxy moves me and fills me with hope. I see many nations moving away from believing they must conquer to be the best, learning that police really are the cause of crime, and knowing that hording knowledge, wealth or power leads to ruin and rot. Mr. Clifton did deserve his 2020 posthumous award.