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October 2003
On Sale: October 1, 2003
352 pages
ISBN: 0765307588
EAN: 9780765307583
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Science Fiction
The SS Cygni probe sent back hours of video, captured by the
Biolathe AI, but only a few minutes mattered--the four
minutes that showed a creature made of fire, living ,
moving, dancing in the plasma fire of the double star's
accretion disk. A dragon made of star stuff, so alien that
only a human expedition to observe and perhaps capture it,
could truly understand them. It's a perilous journey into the future, however, for SS
Cygni is 245 light- years from Earth, and even though only
two years' subjective time will pass on board the Karamojo,
the crew will return to an Earth where five hundred years
have passed. Captain Lena Fang doesn't care--she has made
her life on her ship, where her best friend is the ship's
AI. Samuel Fisher, the contract exobiologist,doesn't care,
either. He is making the voyage of a lifetime and in the
small world of the Karamojo he will have to live with the
consequences of his obsessive quest for knowledge. The rest
of the small crew--Axel Henderson, the biosystems engineer;
Sylvia Devereaux, the beautiful physical sciences expert;
and Phil Stearn, the ship's jack-of-all-trades--have their
own reasons for saying good-bye to everyone they have ever
known. As the Biolathe AI said, uncertain five hundred- year
round trips don't attract the most stable personalities, but
somehow they'll have to learn to get along with each other,
if they're to catch their dragon and come home again. For at the end of the journey is the star dragon--a creature
of fire with a nuclear furnace for heart. The crew of the
Karamojo--human and AI alike--will risk everything to
capture it, and it will take all their technology, all their
skill, and more courage than theyknew they had, to come home
alive.
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