The Minervan Experiment

The Minervan Experiment is an omnibus of the Giants series: Inherit the Stars, The Gentle Giants of Ganymede & Giants' Star.Giants is a series of five sf books by James P. Hogan beginning in '77. The story follows several scientists who discover how humans originated on a planet named Minerva which orbited the Sol System between Mars & Jupiter. When Minerva was destroyed during a civil war a handful of people migrated from a lunar colony to Earth & colonized it. The colonists' descendants soon forgot their technology & where their ancestors had come from & began our current view of history. Originally a trilogy, it was expanded to five after many years:Inherit The Stars, 5/1977, ISBN 0345301072 The Gentle Giants of Ganymede, 5/1978, ISBN 0345290488 Giants' Star, 7/1981, ISBN 0345287711 Entoverse, 1991, ISBN 1857230027 Mission To Minerva, 1/2005, ISBN 0743499026 Collections of the stories are:The Two Moons contains books 1-2 The Two Worlds contains books 3-4 The Minervan Experiment & The Giant Novels contain books 1-3