Second Contact |
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| Authors: | Austin, J. D. |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC028010 |
| ISBN: | 9781101207963, Related ISBNs: 0441008798, 1101207965, 9780441008797, 9781101207963 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 208, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: Mankind is attempting to contact alien life. Unfortunately, they’re screening their calls.
Dangling on the edge of the galaxy is Kivlan, a planet reputed to be a gracious and accommodating paradise. Even its name means tranquility—but apparently in some dead language, because when an earthship sends out a friendly hello, Kivlan immediately responds with missile fire.
Leave it to Earth to give peace one more chance—by dispatching one more ship to Kivlan. And Matt Wiener, its optimistic captain, isn’t traveling way the hell out there just to make enemies. A real straight-arrow, he’s prepared to do what it takes to keep the universe in harmony. Even if it kills them all.
Dangling on the edge of the galaxy is Kivlan, a planet reputed to be a gracious and accommodating paradise. Even its name means tranquility—but apparently in some dead language, because when an earthship sends out a friendly hello, Kivlan immediately responds with missile fire.
Leave it to Earth to give peace one more chance—by dispatching one more ship to Kivlan. And Matt Wiener, its optimistic captain, isn’t traveling way the hell out there just to make enemies. A real straight-arrow, he’s prepared to do what it takes to keep the universe in harmony. Even if it kills them all.
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