Fallen Angels (1991) (ISBN 0743435826) is a Prometheus Award-winning novel by science fiction authors Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn. The novel was written as a tribute to science fiction fandom, and includes many of its well-known figures, legends, and practices. 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given out annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society (which also publishes a quarterly journal, Prometheus). ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Larry Niven Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is a US science fiction author. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Michael Flynn, (born 1947), sometimes published as Michael F. Flynn, worked full time as a statistician and wrote science fiction as a sideline for several years. ... Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is the community of people actively interested in science fiction and fantasy literature, and in contact with one another based upon that interest. ...

The story features a future in which the environmentalist movement has gained control of the earth's governments, imposing draconian luddite laws which, in an ironic effort to end global warming, bring about an even greater environmental catastrophe in the form of an ice age. Against this backdrop, two marooned astronauts from the spacestations of Peace (the Russian Mir), and Freedom (which collectively form what amounts to a rogue state), flee the radically green American government with the aid of science fiction fandom (the last remnants of a pro-technology underground in the U.S.), in an effort to return home in orbit. The novel takes aim at several targets of ridicule: Senator William Proxmire, environmentalists, and mystics who believe that one cannot freeze to death in the snow because "crystals are healing." Environmentalism is activism aimed at improving the environment, particularly nature. ... The Luddites were a social movement of English workers in the early 1800s who protested – often by destroying textile machines – against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution that they felt threatened their jobs. ... Global mean surface temperatures 1856 to 2004 Mean temperature anomalies during the period 1995 to 2004 with respect to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 Global warming describes an increase in the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere and oceans. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU) outside the Challenger in 1984. ... A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live on in outer space. ... Mir (Мир, which can mean both world and peace in Russian) was also a highly successful Soviet (and later Russian) space station. ... Rogue States Rogue state is a term used almost exclusively by the government of the United States and has not gained wide acceptance. ... Look up green in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is the community of people actively interested in science fiction and fantasy literature, and in contact with one another based upon that interest. ... William Proxmire (born November 11, 1915) was a member of the Democratic Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989. ...

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• An electronic edition is available free at the Baen Free Library, here.