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Spinneret

Spinneret

Timothy Zahn
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We are not alone in the universe. As Earth
vessels ventured out to explore near interstellar space, they found not
one alien race, but many. There were no planets that hadn't already been
colonized or inhabited by some space faring race other than our own.
Until finally we humans discovered Astra. Elation was short lived,
however, when it was realized that this habitable world contained no
real metals.
So Astra became a planet to be used as a minor
experiment. A group of Americans under UN charter set out to make a
colony on Astra, eager to make a home where they could live in peace and
without the fear of terrestrial wars. All was fairly routine, until the
planet began to play tricks on the colonists.
First there were
magnetic-field shifts; then all metal in contact with the ground
disappeared. Colonel Merideth, in charge of the colony, was having
enough trouble with unrest among farmers without the specter of bizarre
planetary characteristics. But when the first metal cable erupted from
what had appeared to be a dormant volcano, Merideth realized that Astra
was not merely a metal-poor planet. An unknown race, dubbed the
Spinners, had left a working artifact behind. Suddenly, he was in charge
of a hot property, one fervently desired by all who had ignored it
before: the UN, the U.S., and the alien races in nearby space, the
Rooshrike, the Ctencri, the Poms, the Whissst, and the Orspham.
Being
in charge and staying in control are two different things, and Merideth
and his crew would need all their wits, as well as considerable Yankee
horse sense, to keep from being overrun by dangers -- from Earth, or
from the stars. Only when they discover the ultimate secret of the race
of Spinners will the Astrans know the key to their own future.
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Рік:
2012
Видавництво:
Open Road Media
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
339
ISBN 10:
1453273212
ISBN 13:
9781453273210
ISBN:
B0094ANU18
Файл:
EPUB, 802 KB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2012
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