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A message from space leads to a desperate race against time and across space to our nearest stellar neighbor in a new hard science fiction thriller from Travis S. Taylor and Les Johnson.2072. At the lunar farside radio observatory, an oldschool radio broadcast is detected, similar to those broadcast on Earth in the 1940s, but in an unknown language, coming from an impossible sourceProxima Centauri. While the nations of Earth debate making first contact, they learn that the Proximans are facing an extinctionlevel disaster, forcing a decision: will Earth send a ship on a multiyear trip to render aid?Interstellar travel is not easy, and by traveling at the speeds required to arrive before disaster strikes at Proxima, humans will learn firsthand the timedilating effects of Einsteins Special Relativity and be forced to ponder ultimate questions: What does it mean to be human? What will it take to share the stars with another form of life? What if I return younger than my own children? The answers are far from academic, for they may determine the fate of not one, but two, civilizations.About Travis S. Taylor:[E]xplodes with inventive action.Publishers Weekly on Travis S. Taylors The Quantum Connection[Warp Speed] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum . . . You wont want to put it down.John RingoAbout Stellaris: People of the Stars, coedited by Les Johnson:[A] thoughtprovoking look at a selection of realworld challenges and speculative fiction solutions. . . . Readers will enjoy this collection that is as educational as it is entertaining.BooklistThis was an enjoyable collection of science fiction dealing with colonizing the stars. In the collection were several gems and the overall quality was high.TangentAbout Mission to Methone, by Les Johnson:The spirit of Arthur C. Clarke and his contemporaries is alive and well in Johnsons oldfashioned firstcontact novel, set in 2068. . . . includes plenty of realistic detail and puts fun new spins on familiar alien concepts. . . . Theres a great deal here for fans of early hard SF.Publishers WeeklyWith equal parts science fiction and international intrigue. . . . an exciting, fastpaced read that you will not want to put down.BooklistAbout Rescue Mode, by Ben Bova and Les Johnson:. . . a suspenseful and compelling narrative of the first human spaceflight to Mars.Booklist
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