star butterfly

Book cover fragment for a Bernard Werber's "Star Butterfly" book cover.
Overpopulation, resources depletion, rising crime and terrorist threats are forcing people to build a giant interplanetary ship, the Star Butterfly Solar Sail, and go into space in search of a better place to live. And all would be well if the saviors of mankind took into account one unequivocal thing: though carefully selected, people remained human and took not only their virtues but also their faults on a journey. Wars, revolutions, revolts, betrayals, murders, epidemics… - the whole history of mankind with its dramas and tragedies is repeated in the microcosm of the newest interplanetary ark. In the end, only two were destined to see the new planet ... out of 144,000. Is it possible to create a perfect person and a perfect society if you start the story from a scratch?