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Saving Proxima
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Series: Orion's Arm, Book 1
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ISBN10: 1982125500
ISBN13: 9781982125509
Publisher: Baen
Published: Aug 3 2021
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.14
Height: 1.22 Width: 6.42 Depth: 9.33
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781982125509
Publisher: Baen
Published: Aug 3 2021
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.14
Height: 1.22 Width: 6.42 Depth: 9.33
Language: English
A message from space leads to a desperate race against time and across space to our nearest stellar neighbor in a new hard science fiction thriller from Travis S. Taylor and Les Johnson. 2072. At the lunar farside radio observatory, an old-school radio broadcast is detected, similar to those broadcast on Earth in the 1940s, but in an unknown language, coming from an impossible source--Proxima Centauri. While the nations of Earth debate making first contact, they learn that the Proximans are facing an extinction-level disaster, forcing a decision: will Earth send a ship on a multiyear trip to render aid? Interstellar travel is not easy, and by traveling at the speeds required to arrive before disaster strikes at Proxima, humans will learn firsthand the time-dilating effects of Einstein's Special Relativity and be forced to ponder ultimate questions: What does it mean to be human? What will it take to share the stars with another form of life? What if I return younger than my own children? The answers are far from academic, for they may determine the fate of not one, but two, civilizations. About Travis S. Taylor:
[E]xplodes with inventive action.--Publishers Weekly on Travis S. Taylor's The Quantum Connection [Warp Speed] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum . . . You won't want to put it down.--John Ringo About Stellaris: People of the Stars, coedited by Les Johnson:
[A] thought-provoking look at a selection of real-world challenges and speculative fiction solutions. . . . Readers will enjoy this collection that is as educational as it is entertaining.--Booklist This was an enjoyable collection of science fiction dealing with colonizing the stars. In the collection were several gems and the overall quality was high.--Tangent About Mission to Methone, by Les Johnson:
The spirit of Arthur C. Clarke and his contemporaries is alive and well in Johnson's old-fashioned first-contact novel, set in 2068. . . . includes plenty of realistic detail and puts fun new spins on familiar alien concepts. . . . There's a great deal here for fans of early hard SF.--Publishers Weekly With equal parts science fiction and international intrigue. . . . an exciting, fast-paced read that you will not want to put down.--Booklist About Rescue Mode, by Ben Bova and Les Johnson:
. . . a suspenseful and compelling narrative of the first human spaceflight to Mars.--Booklist
[A] thought-provoking look at a selection of real-world challenges and speculative fiction solutions. . . . Readers will enjoy this collection that is as educational as it is entertaining.--Booklist This was an enjoyable collection of science fiction dealing with colonizing the stars. In the collection were several gems and the overall quality was high.--Tangent About Mission to Methone, by Les Johnson:
The spirit of Arthur C. Clarke and his contemporaries is alive and well in Johnson's old-fashioned first-contact novel, set in 2068. . . . includes plenty of realistic detail and puts fun new spins on familiar alien concepts. . . . There's a great deal here for fans of early hard SF.--Publishers Weekly With equal parts science fiction and international intrigue. . . . an exciting, fast-paced read that you will not want to put down.--Booklist About Rescue Mode, by Ben Bova and Les Johnson:
. . . a suspenseful and compelling narrative of the first human spaceflight to Mars.--Booklist
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