Spinneret
by:
Timothy Zahn (author)
A newly colonized planet holds many secrets in its seemingly barren depths. But will it lead to humanity’s salvation, or its destruction? Chasing a new frontier, humankind sends a manned starship into the universe and away from the overpopulated Earth in hopes of finding a new planet to colonize....
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A newly colonized planet holds many secrets in its seemingly barren depths. But will it lead to humanity’s salvation, or its destruction? Chasing a new frontier, humankind sends a manned starship into the universe and away from the overpopulated Earth in hopes of finding a new planet to colonize. But every Earthlike world they discover is already inhabited. As it turns out, the universe is a very crowded place. An alien council offers to lease the one remaining uninhabited world: Astra, a bleak and barren but serviceable planet. The new settlement, though, quickly experiences serious problems, from dying crops to the mysterious disappearance of anything and everything that is made of metal. And then Astra reveals a secret neither the aliens nor the human governments could ever have imagined.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781453272060 (1453272062)
Publish date: October 16th 2012
Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pages no: 340
Edition language: English
Imagine, if you will, that we, the human race, reach out into the solar system to colonize. It'll happen, eventually. Now imagine that when we do that, every single world we can find that is habitable by humans has instead become home to aliens. Not just one alien race, but many. They tell us th...