Kim Miller
A minor player in the control station of an orbiting telescope sees an anomaly. Something heads towards Saturn but it's also slowing down. Nothing slows down out in space except controlled space craft. Then it stops at Saturn. US space control hurries to convert a space station into a ship to go and investigate. The anomaly ship leaves Saturn and the flare from the drive system is picked up all over the world. China wants to investigate and rushes to convert its nearly complete Mars ship to long distance. And so a new space race begins. Two countries, two very different space ships, and the possibility of far future alien tech if they can bring it home.
Hard sci fi meets space adventure meets political thriller. Sandford is a thriller writer and I think this is his first Sci Fi. Ctein (pronouned K'Tine) is a famous photographer and print maker with a science background. He provided the science research and original idea for the book. This is his first novel, his other books are generally about restoring old photographs. The name comes from when his university magazine made a bunch of typesetting errors, got his name badly wrong, and he decided to keep it.
A minor player in the control station of an orbiting telescope sees an anomaly. Something heads towards Saturn but it's also slowing down. Nothing slows down out in space except controlled space craft. Then it stops at Saturn. US space control hurries to convert a space station into a ship to go and investigate. The anomaly ship leaves Saturn and the flare from the drive system is picked up all over the world. China wants to investigate and rushes to convert its nearly complete Mars ship to long distance. And so a new space race begins. Two countries, two very different space ships, and the possibility of far future alien tech if they can bring it home.
Hard sci fi meets space adventure meets political thriller. Sandford is a thriller writer and I think this is his first Sci Fi. Ctein (pronouned K'Tine) is a famous photographer and print maker with a science background. He provided the science research and original idea for the book. This is his first novel, his other books are generally about restoring old photographs. The name comes from when his university magazine made a bunch of typesetting errors, got his name badly wrong, and he decided to keep it.