A spaceship on a vital medical mission.
An alien who shouldn’t exist.
An Ambassador charged with extracting secrets from strange
new people...
Mission specialists on revolutionary research hospital ship
Chiron seek a cure for Earth’s remarkably strange alien pandemic. On their way
to a distant planet, they must deal with tricky aliens, weird wildlife, and
science gone awry. When they follow their map to meet the aliens of Fabar,
unimaginable problems arise.
Captain Walsh is forced to fall back on his military prowess
to deal with aliens invading Fabar; but are these odd octopoids friend or foe?
Ambassador O’Bien leads humans and aliens on a
pulse-pounding planetary adventure to forge relationships with aliens who might
have answers. As they delve deeper into the Fabarian culture and politics, she
wonders how to earn the trust of aliens who have every reason not to give it.
How do they deal with the dilemma of clones who shouldn’t be, but are essential
for the success of their medical mission? How can they save one who doesn’t
want to be saved?
Helping them along is an elite set of crew and specialists,
each with their own quirks. A computer department head hiding talents confides
in a geneticist who turn out to be twice what anyone ever expected. Martial
artist and top gun security-head uses mind and body to battle ships, aliens,
and his own dark beasts.
Through it all, a secretive few fervently pursue their own
human enhancement agendas. The indispensable inventor of the dangerous deep
space engine’s love for someone not quite dead makes her almost alive again.
Victims of experimentation join clones and a war vet with powerful robot legs
in wondering just how far humans should be enhanced, as they go on an incredible
journey to find the solutions Earth needs.
I would recommend this novel to lovers of scientific novels
… I love [the author’s] fictional imagination of the aliens and their planet …
This book was so interesting, and I am longing for the next book in the series.
– Online Bookclub
