NEEPER, Cary

   Working name of US microbiologist and author Carolyn A. Neeper (1937-) for her fiction, which consists primarily of the ambitious A Place Beyond Man (1975), which somewhat uneasily combines a HARD-SF rendering of thephysics and biology of her interplanetary venues with a contemplative sweep characteristic of the SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE. Confronted with the looming ecological self-destruction of Earth, the two other sentient species of our Solar System must decide what course to follow; the consequent lessons are earnestly put.

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