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Help Identify Sci Fi Book

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  • 29-07-2013 11:20am
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    kudo
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭


    I'm looking for help identifying a sci-fi book/series. I read the first book years ago but cannot remember the name. I cant find it with google either. I'm a more of a fantasy reader than sci-fi so this could be a very well known sci-fi book.

    The jist of the first book is below as I remember it.

    A boy living in an Inuit type culture, very primitive. Whole tribe dies out due to some sickness I thing. Just prior to this he goes through some form of ceremony to become a man. After the tribe dies out he undertakes a journey across an artic type landscape and arrives at some form of university where he studies to become a spaceship pilot.


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    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Sounds like it could be David Zindell's "A Requiem for Homo Sapiens" trilogy or its prequel "Neverness":

    First book in the trilogy is "The Broken God":
    Set 10 years after the events in Neverness, and narrated by its protagonist, Mallory Ringess, this book tells the story of the early life of Danlo, Ringess's son. After the tribe he is living with is destroyed by a plague, he undertakes a perilous journey to Neverness City, where he is taken in and instructed by an alien Fravashi ("Old Father"), and joins the Academy in order to become a pilot like his father.
    The tribe was Inuit-based as far as I can recall.


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    kudo
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭kudo


    Thats it.Thanks. Been wrecking my head for years.


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    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    kudo wrote: »
    Thats it.Thanks. Been wrecking my head for years.
    Really liked these back when I read them. Mixture of sci-fi and philosophy with a dose of spirituality. Interesting series. First series I can recall to use the term "the painfully slow speed of light" when discussing the vast distances between star systems.


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    kudo
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭kudo


    It's a book that has always stuck with me, I read it about 15 years ago now I think. Was interesting at the time, hope it holds up for me.


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    giftgrub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭giftgrub


    Wow I had a stab at Neverness almost 20 years ago now...couldnt get into it. I was about 15 at the time. Might see can i find it and give it another go...


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