Delta Search: Quest for Tomorrow - Hardcover

Shatner, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061052744 ISBN 13: 9780061052743

Publisher: Harper Prism, 1997

Synopsis

Young Jim Endicott possesses a secret encoded in his DNA that threatens an empire, and when Jim applies to the Terran Space Academy, an explosive chain of terror sends him on an adventure beyond his wildest dreams as he uncovers the fatal deception that spawns a bitter war.

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About the Author:

World Famous as Star Trek's Captain Kirk, William Shatner is now celebrated as a bestselling author of science fiction adventure. Step into Chaos is the third novel in his acclaimed Quest for Tomorrow series, following Delta Search and Alien Hands.

From Booklist:

With this fast-paced action-sf novel, Shatner launches yet another series, called Quest for Tomorrow. Jim Endicott carries, encoded in his DNA, the secret of a process that will make humanity equal to its superior alien neighbors by enabling human minds to be linked together into a sort of organic supercomputer. This endowment puts him and his foster parents on the run from Delta, a super-spymaster who is Jim's biological father. Delta developed the process Jim carries, but after the defection of Jim's biological mother, he has been using a makeshift arrangement that has had a disastrous effect on the mental stability of humanity's Plebs, as the technologically unemployed are called. For their part, the Plebs want Jim as bait for luring Delta to destruction. Despite abundant action and high-tech hardware (the book would, given a generous FX budget, translate well to the screen), Shatner also manages to produce much subtle characterization, realistic (occasionally grungy) world building, and a sober regard for morally ambiguous situations and the decisions forced on 16-year-old Jim and others. This is the Heinlein sf juvenile novel grown up. Roland Green

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Prism
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0061052744
• ISBN 13: 9780061052743
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 247