![]() ![]() By sterilizing a peninsula with the ship's fusion engines and seeding the cleansed ground with Earth plant life, along with the burials of dead colonists (colloquially known as lifegivers, as they were always buried with a tree as a headstone), a self-sustaining near-analogue of Earth's ecosystem was created. The Road was created to enable humans to survive on the planet, as its native life is not nutritious to Earth life-and vice versa. The novel is set several hundred years in the future, on an Earth-like planet named Destiny, along a length of fused bedrock known as the Road. The novel takes place in the same universe as the novel The Legacy of Heorot. ![]() Jemmy is descended from the original Destiny colonists, who were stranded when their landing craft (which created the Road) deserted them. It follows Jemmy Bloocher's exploration of Destiny's Road, a long scar of once-melted rock seared onto the planet's surface by a spaceship's fusion drive. Destiny's Road is a science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven, first published in 1998. ![]()
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