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"The Continent Makers" ("Viagens Interplanetarias" Series Collection) de L. Sprague de Camp, apresentado por Isaac Asimov, com nota do autor. O livro trata das "Viagens Interplanetárias" num futuro em que o Brasil é a potência dominante na Terra e o Português a língua predominante nos 'caminhos espaciais'. Essas viagens ocorrem no quintal de nosso planeta, entre as estrelas, ou seja, a um razoável número de anos-luz do Sol e produzem efeitos singulares na passagem subjetiva do tempo.
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'The Continent Makers' is a science fiction novella written by L. Sprague de Camp, a story in his Viagens Interplanetarias series. It was first published in the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories in the issue for April, 1951. It first appeared in book form in the collection The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens, published in hardcover by Twayne Publishers in 1953, and in paperback by Signet Books in 1971. It has also been translated into Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian (...) "The Continent Makers" is set on a future Earth governed by a World Federation in which Brazil has become the paramount great power, with Terran space travel monopolized by a Brazilian-dominated agency called the Viagens Interplanetarias ("Interplanetary Tours" in Portuguese).

Interstellar travel is between the Solar System and nearby stellar systems is common, though limited to sub-light speeds, as the author eschews such common science fiction gimmicks as hyperdrives. Most reachable systems have life-bearing planets inhabited by alien races; an Interplanetary Council regulates relations between the various civilizations. Terrans and the reptilian natives of the planet Osiris are the main spacefaring peoples.

As dated in The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens and the 1959 version of de Camp's essay "The Krishna Stories," the action of "The Continent Makers" takes place in the year A.D. 2153, placing it after "The Colorful Character", and making it the third Viagens story set on Earth in terms of chronology.... [From Wikipedia].

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