Please help me find the title to this sci-fi book

February 5, 2008 6:47 PM

Please help me find a specific sci-fi book

earth destroyed distant future ---- many societies of people travel
on man made spheres. live forever have implant that allows them to
communicate with a computer and gives them information

one society visits the a settlement of previous vatican catholic
society ruled by priest and a pope council.

Tensions develop when they are visited by the advanced society.
Eventually, after a group wants to leave the pre- industrielized
society and join the others (rebellion) leaving the other society
short of citizens that could not be sustained, a nucluer bomb is snuck
on board the orbiting society and it slowly sinks out of orbit.
Before it does, survivoirs make way to a rescue craft and start a
new. They have to travel several generatons to another sphere that
is like a backup and reserve in case of problems. They no longer can
live forever but survive based on the training of the computers
education.

The catholic society is detroyed by the fall out of the orbiting spher

posted by passtehbrainz to technology (6 comments total)

Off armageddon reef - David Weber?

It's in my pile to read, and it sounds similar to what I was told about it.
posted by mhp at 7:03 PM on February 5, 2008

Sounds really interesting, but thats not the one.
posted by passtehbrainz at 7:10 PM on February 5, 2008

Endymion or the Rise of Endymion? I know they involve sci-fi and the new Vatican and a destroyed/lost earth.
posted by ruevian at 9:15 PM on February 5, 2008

doesn't ring a bell, but you could try asking on the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written — they're good at story IDs.
posted by hattifattener at 12:09 AM on February 6, 2008

Thanks for the tip, i'll give the newsgroups a shot.
posted by passtehbrainz at 5:31 AM on February 6, 2008

Sounds a bit like James Blish's Cities in Flight, but not enough like it that I would say that it's your answer. Still, Blish is always worth reading, and if you haven't read Cities you might like it.
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 9:26 AM on February 6, 2008