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Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind’s expansion beyond the solar system in Apes and Angels, the last installment in the Star Quest Trilogy.
Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it.
A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy’s core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth’s vicinity at the speed of light. Every world it touched was wiped clean of all life. But it’s possible to protect a planet from gamma radiation. Earth is safe.
Now, guided by the ancient intelligent machines called the Predecessors, men and women from Earth seek out those precious, rare worlds that harbor intelligent species, determined to save them from the doom that is hurtling toward them.
The crew of the Odysseus has arrived at Mithra Gamma, the third planet of the star Mithra, to protect the stone-age inhabitants from the Death Wave. But they’ll also have to protect themselves.
© 2017 Blackstone Publishing (Luisterboek): 9781441753618
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 21 februari 2017
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3 of 3
Fantasy & SciFi
Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind’s expansion beyond the solar system in Apes and Angels, the last installment in the Star Quest Trilogy.
Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it.
A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy’s core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth’s vicinity at the speed of light. Every world it touched was wiped clean of all life. But it’s possible to protect a planet from gamma radiation. Earth is safe.
Now, guided by the ancient intelligent machines called the Predecessors, men and women from Earth seek out those precious, rare worlds that harbor intelligent species, determined to save them from the doom that is hurtling toward them.
The crew of the Odysseus has arrived at Mithra Gamma, the third planet of the star Mithra, to protect the stone-age inhabitants from the Death Wave. But they’ll also have to protect themselves.
© 2017 Blackstone Publishing (Luisterboek): 9781441753618
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 21 februari 2017
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Coen
24 jan 2024
Beautiful but flawed story. While the general ideas in the book were very well thought out, I found the human characters in the book to be hulariously incompetent, to the point of absurdism. Even the main character suffers from serious logical impairment. One can only wonder how much MC must be rolling its eyes at the litany of bad decisions, illogical thinking, and seemingly complete lack of professionalism of the crew. For example, sending a single person on a dangerous away mission is simply crazy, although on second thought maybe not given the incompetence of the great majority of the crew of the Odysseus. Also, while it is unclear whether Odysseus carries weapons, and "nuking a site from orbit" may not be an option, one could surely think of a better (= less risky) final solution than that offered by the main character. Still, a nice read and excellent naration performance!
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