Three novels: Rule golden, Natural state, [and] The dying man

Rule Golden. The golden rule is inverted in the hand of the alien. It makes the citizens of Earht see what horrible fools they really are. Natural State. The year 2064 defines patriotism as loyalty to the city and hatred to the country. This order seem threatened by the Muckfeet. The Dying Man. Man has discovered the secret to immortality, and death is thought to be nonexistent. But for Claire and Dio, supreme happiness is when he realizes that early man's greatest achievements were nurtured by the fact of his mortality.