Saga of Cuckoo

Saga of Cuckoo
	Farthest Star ; Wall Around a Star
Author	Frederik Pohl ; Jack Williamson
Country	US
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Published	1975 / 1983
Media type	Print
No. of books	2

The Saga of Cuckoo is a series of science fiction novels by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson. It consists of two novels:

Farthest Star (1975)
Wall Around a Star (1983)

Characters

Ben Charles Pertin - an engineer
- Ben James - Duplicate, Deceased (Aurora)
- Ben Frank - Duplicate, Deceased (Aurora)
- Ben Linc - Duplicate, Cuckoo Station
- Ben Yale - Edited^[1] Duplicate, Cuckoo
- Ben Tom - Duplicate, Deceased^[2] (Cuckoo)

Napier Chimski^[3] (Doc Chimp) - an intelligent if pessimistic chimpanzee.
Zara Doy - Ben's fiancee, married to Jon
- Zara Gentry - Edited Duplicate, Cuckoo
Jon Gentry - Husband of Zara
- Jon - Edited Duplicate, Cuckoo
Fifteenth (Org Rider) - Native of Cuckoo (Human)
Redlaw - Native of Cuckoo (Human)
Venus - Purchased Person, Cuckoo Station
Valkyrie - Edited Duplicate, Cuckoo
Nlem (Nammie) - t'Worlie
- Nloom (Nammie) - Edited Duplicate, Cuckoo

Races

Human
t'Worlie - collective intelligence^[4]
Sheliak - dough like beings
Beta Boötis (Boaty Bits) - collective intelligence^[5]
Scorpians - robotic lifeforms, resembling metal octopoids^[6]

Aldebaranian - reptilian^[7]

Watchers

Themes

The series explores several themes, the most used is the notion of an interstellar teleporter that leaves the original being behind and sends only a duplicate.

References

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Pohl, Fred; Jack Williamson (1983). The Saga of Cuckoo (SFBC ed.). Nelson Doubleday. OCLC 9879683. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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[1] (SC: FS, p. 130)

[2] (SC: FS, p. 167)

[3] (SC: FS, p. 41)

[4] (SC: FS, p. 13)

[5] (SC: FS, p. 39)

[6] (SC: FS, p. 52)

[7] (SC: FS, p. 66)

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v t e Works by Frederik Pohl
Undersea Trilogy (with Jack Williamson)	Undersea Quest (1954) Undersea Fleet (1956) Undersea City (1958)
Heechee Saga	Gateway (1977) Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980) Heechee Rendezvous (1984) The Annals of the Heechee (1987) The Gateway Trip (1990) The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway (2004)
Eschaton trilogy	The Other End of Time (1996) The Siege of Eternity (1997) The Far Shore of Time (1999)
Mars series	Man Plus (1976) Mars Plus (1994) (with Thomas T. Thomas)
Saga of Cuckoo (with Jack Williamson)	Farthest Star (1975) Wall Around a Star (1983)
The Starchild Trilogy (with Jack Williamson)	The Reefs of Space (1964) Starchild (1965) Rogue Star (1969)
Space Merchants series	The Space Merchants (1953) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) The Merchants' War (1984) Venus, Inc. (1985 Omnibus) (this is a two-in-one volume containing The Space Merchants and The Merchants' War)
Other	Search the Sky (1954) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Gladiator-At-Law (1955) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Preferred Risk (1955) (with Lester del Rey) Slave Ship (1956) Presidential Year (1958) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Wolfbane (1959) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Drunkard's Walk (1960) A Plague of Pythons (1964) The Age of the Pussyfoot (1965) Day Million (1970) The Best of Frederik Pohl (1975) Jem (1979) The Cool War (1981) Syzygy (1981) Starburst (1982) The Years of the City (1984) Black Star Rising (1985) The Coming of the Quantum Cats (1986) Terror (1986) Chernobyl (1987) Land's End (1988) (with Jack Williamson) The Day the Martians Came (1988) Narabedla Ltd. (1988) Homegoing (1989) The World at the End of Time (1990) Outnumbering the Dead (1990) Stopping at Slowyear (1991) The Singers of Time (1991) (with Jack Williamson) Mining the Oort (1992) The Voices of Heaven (1994) O Pioneer! (1998) The Last Theorem (2008) (with Arthur C. Clarke) All the Lives He Led (2011)