Probability Moon
Author | : Nancy Kress |
Publisher | : Tor Books |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2002-09-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781466824423 |
ISBN-13 | : 1466824425 |
Rating | : 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Humankind has expanded out into interstellar space using star gates-technological remnants left behind by an ancient, long-vanished race. But the technology comes with a price. Among the stars, humanity encountered the Fallers, a strange alien race bent on nothing short of genocide. It's all-out war, and humanity is losing. In this fragile situation, a new planet is discovered, inhabited by a pre-industrial race who experience "shared reality"-they're literally compelled to share the same worldview. A team of human scientists is dispatched-but what they don't know is that their mission of first contact is actually a covert military operation. For one of the planet's moons is really a huge mysterious artifact of the same origin as the star gates . . . and it just may be the key to winning the war. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.