Spindrift - Hardcover

Steele, Allen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0441014712 ISBN 13: 9780441014712

Publisher: Ace Hardcover, 2007

Synopsis

More than fifty years after a European starship goes missing while investigating an unidentified space object with possible alien origins, the expedition's three surviving members return to Earth without having aged and possessing claims about an extraterrestrial race. By the author of Coyote Frontier. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Allen Steele is the author of eleven previous science fiction novels.

From Publishers Weekly:

Starred Review. Set in the same universe as Hugo-winner Steele's popular trilogy that began with Coyote (2002), this fascinating supplement concentrates on events that happen offstage after Coyote Rising (2004). When Earth detected a large alien artifact drifting past a distant star, a hastily organized and fractious expedition was sent to investigate. Communication failed just after the Earth crew arrived on the scene and began exploring, so everyone was presumed lost—until decades later, when three survivors and an alien envoy turned up at the end of Coyote Frontier (2005). This latest installment describes what the ill-fated expedition discovers, what goes wrong and how a few people save themselves by recognizing their ignorance and isolation, then resolving to work past those limitations. Though readers of the trilogy already know the basic story—and the novel's opening also gives away most of the outcome—Steele delivers a gripping saga of humanity on the verge of exploring the larger universe. (Apr.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ace Hardcover
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0441014712
• ISBN 13: 9780441014712
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368