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   J.J. O'Shea to All   
   Re: Trying to remember name of scifi boo   
   15 Sep 08 15:42:44   
   
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   From: try.not.to@but.see.sig   
      
   On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:36:06 -0400, acatejr@gmail.com wrote   
   (in article   
   ):   
      
   > Quite a few years ago I read a scifi book that I really liked, but   
   > can't remember who wrote in nor the title.  The premise of the story   
   > was that in the waning days of Earth scientists sent a ship to a   
   > remote-inhabitable planet.  The ship arrived many years later and the   
   > humans on the ship colonized the planet.  Neither planet established   
   > communication with the other.  Many many years go by and Earth is   
   > still getting by, so some government decides to send out a military   
   > ship to check on the colonized planet and make sure they know they are   
   > an Earth colony.  The military ship arrives and the colonized planet   
   > seems peaceful enough until the military ship tries to force Earth   
   > based laws on them.  The colonized planet had evolved to value   
   > knowledge over money.  It was a great story.  Does anyone know the   
   > book's title or author's name?  Thanks.   
      
   _Voyage From Yesteryear_, James P. Hogan. From before he got the Brain Eater   
   and became both a holocaust denier and a Velikovskyist and could actually   
   still write.   
      
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