Starplex (Robert Sawyer)
Robert J Sawyer
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 0889954445
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Aurora Award-winning Science-fiction Classic back in Print!
The only novel from its year to be nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
Flashforward will be published during ABC's highly anticipated new series, Flashforward, which begab Thursday September 24th. This series is based on Robert Sawyer's first novel of the same name - so interst in his titles will increase with this high exposure. Check out the trailer at: http://abc.go.com/shows/flash-forward
The giant exploration starship Starplex - crewed by humans, dolphins, and extraterrestrials - embarks on a journey covering billions of years of time and millions of light-years of space.
I'm seeing is typical of interstellar dust, but there's much less absorption going on than I'd expect." He turned to face Keith. "There's simply not enough light out here to see what's going on. We should send up a fusion flare." "What if they are ships?" asked Keith. "Their crews might misconstrue it--think we're launching an attack." "They are almost certainly not ships," said Jag, curtly. "They are planetssized bodies." Keith looked at Rissa, at the holographic Thor. and Rhombus, and at the
spheres is roughly the size of the planet Jupiter," said Thor, his head bent down, consulting a readout. "The smallest is 110,000 klicks wide; the largest, about 170,000. They're clustered into a spherical volume seven million klicks wide, or about five times the diameter of Sol." The individual orbs looked a lot like black-and-white photographs of Jupiter, except that they didn't have neat latitudinal bands of cloud. Rather, the clouds--or whatever it was that formed the visible surface
stockings. How do they-- barked Jag, and Keith immediately knew what he was going to say. How could world-sized objects be packed so closely together? There were perhaps ten diameters between the closest of the objects, and fifteen or so between the ones that were least tightly packed. Keith couldn't imagine any pattern of stable orbits that would keep them from collapsing together under their own gravitational attraction. If this was a natural grouping, it seemed unlikely that it could be an old
engine." Keith left his console and walked over to stand just behind Rhombus. "Any chance of contacting that ship?" One of Rhombus's manipulatory ropes whipped out to touch a control. "Forgive me, but not on conventional radio. The thing is putting out an enormous 'amount of EMI. A hyperspace radio link might work, but there's no way of knowing which quantized level they use for communication." "Start at the lowest and work your way up," Keith said. "Standard prime-number sequences." Another
next to me. I--I got splattered with... with . . ." Keith looked away, and was quiet for a long moment. "They killed him. The best friend I ever had, they killed him." He stared at the ground, plucked a few four-leaf clovers, looked at them for a moment, then threw them away. hey were quiet for several moments. Crickets chirped, and birds sang. Finally, Glass said, "That must be difficult to carry around with you." Keith said nothing. Does Rissa know?" "She does, yes. We were already married at