Spider Star
by Mike Brotherton
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The human colony on the planet Argo has long explored and exploited the technology left behind by an alien race, a race gone for hundreds of thousands of years. But then an archeology team accidentally activates a terrible weapon: a weapon that will destroy the entire colony, and its star, if they cannot deactivate it. Evidence at the site suggests that the weapon was created for the ancient Argonauts by another race, a race of traders. And within that evidence are a map of their show more interstellar trading empire, and the coordinates of their main trading station. Although the information is a hundred thousand years out of date, the only hope for Argo is to send a ship and crew into the unknown, to try to negotiate for a way to shut down the weapon. show lessTags
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A “Dark-Matter” science fiction book heavy in science and adventure, I found it an exciting read. The people and place are detailed and the adventure worth following. The book moves along at just the right pace and is divided into smaller sized chapters, giving the reader places to pause, making the book easier to read. The amount of science is higher than many other sci-fi books (something that I like very much) but is not too overwhelming, giving just enough to allow the reader to believe that it is real. Don’t worry, I won’t give anything away but I hope that author Mike Brotherton does a follow up book covering “the search!”
I'm a few chapters into this and it is terrific so far. Big Smart Objects, astroarchaeology, credible science -- this is what SF is all about. I immediately rushed off to order his other book, [[Star Dragon]]].
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- 2008
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