SUMMARY:
Earth's Outcasts Members of the Families were ordinary human beings except for one disturbing trait: they were extraordinarily long-lived. And in the ultra-civilized year of A.D 2125 this distinction was intolerable. Hounded for a secret they did not knowingly possess, the Families were forced to choose -- torture and extinction by their jealous, short-lived fellow humans... or flight from Earth on an untested starship. They Chose flight. But to their horror they discovered that the alien stars nourished a threat even more terrifying than the one which had taken them from Earth.... (From the back of the book)
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SUMMARY: Earth's Outcasts Members of the Families were ordinary human beings except for one disturbing trait: they were extraordinarily long-lived. And in the ultra-civilized year of A.D 2125 this distinction was intolerable. Hounded for a secret they did not knowingly possess, the Families were forced to choose -- torture and extinction by their jealous, short-lived fellow humans... or flight from Earth on an untested starship. They Chose flight. But to their horror they discovered that the alien stars nourished a threat even more terrifying than the one which had taken them from Earth.... (From the back of the book)