Transit (Cooper novel)
The world of the two moons is a utopian novel of the Englishman Edmund Cooper, who appeared in 1964 under the title of Transit and German in 1970 in the translation by Susi -Maria Roediger in Wilhelm Heyne Verlag.
Action
Small brown alien hybrid rush people scientifically one million years ahead, and have overcome aging, but disappear by accident nevertheless gone forever. You want to determine their successors as rulers in the marginal sector of the second linear quadrant of the Milky Way. They employ twenty islands of uninhabited planet two each of four groups of the two eligible races to each other. One each consisting of people, the other of very human-like inhabitants of a planet at Alpha Centauri. The subjects are leaked small crystals, by which they are fernlenkbar in their actions and forget the time relevant sections later. They equip themselves then even with a certain basic equipment and climb inconspicuous a spaceship that carries them according to the experimental site in the system of Achernar. Four such victims are the teacher Richard Avery, the television actress Barbara Miles, the advertising executive Thomas Sutton and the secretary Mary Durward. You are first subjected to intelligence tests in mysterious metal cabins and made known to each other and communicate via telegraph with the kidnappers. On the lonely island intended for them, seventy light -years from Earth, fight against wild animals and their enigmatic other four, which are tall and ballsy and appear to them as a kind of golden supermen. They discover their love for one another, procreate children and reject the offer last to be brought back to Earth. In view of their gear holds for them, they are at home all been unusually lonely, her new life field now become more and more real significance. Barbara's insistence, the kidnappers show after the end of the experiment reluctantly in makeshift visible form in which they first shimmer for a while between the nature of the four and their four opponents from Alpha Centauri. After the people have to use themselves as psychologically better than highlighted the Centaurians remain no Centauri, but nine underground groups on the test planet. Your tormentors and secret observer justify their choice so that people " [ have drawn ] Force from the community" during the trial and in the process the one thing necessary, "Compassion and [ the ] desire for creative work " possess.
Role within Cooper's oeuvre
Gary K. Wolfe is one of the world of the two moons to a group of novels Coopers, which are weakened in their explanatory power because the author in them motives of science fiction - here the clash of people with members of a rival culture on an alien scene - picks that have been previously been intensively shaped into works of other creators. Cooper manages here, however, to modify such already known object in its own way. The character of the four heroes and the growth of their mutual relationships are portrayed sympathetically. The world of the two moons is considered one of Cooper's best novels. It belongs to a series of works of the author, in which " have retained a sense of the ironies of life," the inhabitants of a crisis-ridden world of the future.
Cooper has the name Richard Avery, the protagonist of the novel, used as a pseudonym when he wrote the four-volume space-opera series The Expendables.