I might have mixed up my sources.

September 21, 2007 1:49 AM

Giant Rabbits? I'm driving myself mad trying to remember a sci-fi book I read as a young'un, but the details are sparse.

It could have been a series (or I could be hopelessly conflating two books).
It was a far future setting, and the location of earth has been lost. The protagonist eventually figures out a crystal studded bowl is actually a map of the stars that overlaps with known space, and uses this to find the location of earth.

The other detail I can remember is a planet of giant rabbits(maybe) that we either black or white, and they lived by the motto something along the lines of 'For the good of the many', the kicker being they interpreted this to mean that the civilisation should be geared towards the colour of the slight majority. Please help!

posted by doozer_ex_machina to media & arts (6 comments total)

Maybe?
posted by catseatcheese at 3:51 AM on September 21, 2007

Just based on the searching-for-earth theme, could be the Dumarest Saga. Ulysses 31 also had that theme but it was mainly a TV show.

Roughly what year did you read this book?
posted by tomcooke at 5:07 AM on September 21, 2007

Foundation and Earth is another one about a future where the location of Earth has been lost.
posted by tomcooke at 5:26 AM on September 21, 2007

Thanks for the responses so far guys, but nothing seems to be ringing a bell. I read the book probably in the mid to early 1980s, and would have gotten it in a public library.
posted by doozer_ex_machina at 5:31 AM on September 21, 2007

I don't think you're crazy, at any rate, because your description rings a bell with me as well.
posted by srt19170 at 6:56 AM on September 21, 2007

Could the rabbit book possibly be Quozl?
posted by gingerbeer at 8:38 AM on September 21, 2007