Jigglypuff
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Hi there, hope someone can help me find the author and titles of a Sci Fi trilogy. I read the second and third about 20 years ago and my memory is a bit sketchy but here goes.
For some reason I thought the title of one of the books was "The Difference Engine" but I may have that confused with something else.
The second book featured twin orbiting planets which shared the same atmosphere at a thin point and was possible to travel via zeppelin type airships (indeed what had happened) the premise of the first book was that all the inhabitants were fleeing one planet to colonise and live on the new one as the original one was dying and I think people were getting sick and dying and mutating. But a section of them refused to leave and were going to die with the planet. They weren't particularly technoligically advanced and were more of a medieval (Feudal) society. Wars broke out between factions and clans for territory. There was an indigineous species of "bubble" like creatures or possibly floating jellyfish present on both worlds. This turns out to be important because the presence of the human society is killing the indigineous species and it is they that keep the planet healthy and alive, without them the planet dies as happened on the first planet. This is only discovered later on when this planet also begins to die. Also in the second book inhabitants who stayed behind on the first planet raise arms and invade the new colonies to kill everyone. The main character is a war-general/bodyguard of the elected king or emperor and in the third book he builds a "spaceship" and sets out on a space travel to a distant planet near the edge of their system yet again for colonising. To cut to the chase and I don't remember too much but when he finally arrives, it is revealed this is their original home planet and needless to say this planet was dead as well.
Thanks, hope someone recognises this.
For some reason I thought the title of one of the books was "The Difference Engine" but I may have that confused with something else.
The second book featured twin orbiting planets which shared the same atmosphere at a thin point and was possible to travel via zeppelin type airships (indeed what had happened) the premise of the first book was that all the inhabitants were fleeing one planet to colonise and live on the new one as the original one was dying and I think people were getting sick and dying and mutating. But a section of them refused to leave and were going to die with the planet. They weren't particularly technoligically advanced and were more of a medieval (Feudal) society. Wars broke out between factions and clans for territory. There was an indigineous species of "bubble" like creatures or possibly floating jellyfish present on both worlds. This turns out to be important because the presence of the human society is killing the indigineous species and it is they that keep the planet healthy and alive, without them the planet dies as happened on the first planet. This is only discovered later on when this planet also begins to die. Also in the second book inhabitants who stayed behind on the first planet raise arms and invade the new colonies to kill everyone. The main character is a war-general/bodyguard of the elected king or emperor and in the third book he builds a "spaceship" and sets out on a space travel to a distant planet near the edge of their system yet again for colonising. To cut to the chase and I don't remember too much but when he finally arrives, it is revealed this is their original home planet and needless to say this planet was dead as well.
Thanks, hope someone recognises this.
