Delta Search (Quest for Tomorrow, 2) - Softcover

Shatner, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061057428 ISBN 13: 9780061057427

Publisher: Harper Voyager, 1997

Synopsis

Young Jim Endicott has but one dream -- to attend the Solis Space Academy, the gateway to the stars and the far-flung civilization known as the Confederation. But unbeknownst to Jim, he has a secret encoded in his DNA. A secret that threatens an empire.

Jim's Academy application sets of an explosive chain of terror, hurling the young man into an adventure beyond his wildest dreams. With the help of a beautiful fellow outlaw named Cat, who is as tough as she is tender, Jim begins to unravel the shocking truth about his own origins -- and uncovers the fatal deception that has split a bitter humanity into warring factions bent on mutual annihilation.

About this title

About the Author:

William Shatner's career as an actor, director, producer, screenwriter, recording artist, author, and horseman has spanned more than fifty years. One of pop culture's most recognizable figures, he is also a major Hollywood philanthropist. Shatner and his wife and three married children live in Los Angeles.

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 Voyager
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0061057428
• ISBN 13: 9780061057427
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416