Normal Dude
20th December 2008, 10:06 AM
OK, so many years ago I read a sci-fi novel and while I can remember many details, I cannot remember the name. It is really bugging me. I'm not much of a sci-fi reader, so I wouldn't even know where to start with looking for this book. I figured I would list the highlights of what I remember and see if it clicks with someone.
Here's what I remember:
- The book is set in the far future, and revolves around a young prince who decides to rebel against his father/royal family and escape from his summer camp and bring the other children with him. The summer camp is located on a custom-built mini-planet, made out of some super-heavy material so that it has earth-like gravity.
- There is a lot of talk of programmable matter in the book. They use it for just about every building material imaginable. People also copy themselves and clone a copy off if they die. So many are essentially immortal or close to it.
- The kids escape by jury-rigging something to blast off the planet as a make-shift ship.
- At one, point, the escaped children encounter a massive ship that roams deep space collecting the afore-mentioned super heavy particles. The crew of the ship are humans, but are naked and have blue skin. At this point the government finds out where they hid and suddenly a swarm of robots teleport into the ship and take them home.
- At the beginning and end of the book, the king (father of the prince) is in seclusion on a remote mini planet. Someone has come for his aid because the now grown-up prince is becoming a menace, and they are trying to talk him out of seclusion.
Here's what I remember:
- The book is set in the far future, and revolves around a young prince who decides to rebel against his father/royal family and escape from his summer camp and bring the other children with him. The summer camp is located on a custom-built mini-planet, made out of some super-heavy material so that it has earth-like gravity.
- There is a lot of talk of programmable matter in the book. They use it for just about every building material imaginable. People also copy themselves and clone a copy off if they die. So many are essentially immortal or close to it.
- The kids escape by jury-rigging something to blast off the planet as a make-shift ship.
- At one, point, the escaped children encounter a massive ship that roams deep space collecting the afore-mentioned super heavy particles. The crew of the ship are humans, but are naked and have blue skin. At this point the government finds out where they hid and suddenly a swarm of robots teleport into the ship and take them home.
- At the beginning and end of the book, the king (father of the prince) is in seclusion on a remote mini planet. Someone has come for his aid because the now grown-up prince is becoming a menace, and they are trying to talk him out of seclusion.