The Exile Waiting

Name: The Exile Waiting
Author: Vonda N. McIntyre
ISBN: 9781504067447

Vonda N. McIntyre

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The Exile Waiting

Vonda N. McIntyre

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#4833 of 8,085 books · #996 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1975).

The Starfarer is a self-sufficient spaceship with a functioning ecosystem, able to navigate from one star system to another via cosmic string, and it is about to embark on a deep space expedition in search of alien contact. Its global crew has come together in the spirit of cooperation and scientific advancement. But Earth struggles with anti-science and anti-technology factions, and there are those who want to turn the Starfarer into a military base. One of them is on board. And he will stop at nothing—including sabotage—to enforce his agenda. After the crew members of the Starfarer hijack their own ship, they intercept an alien message and attempt to decipher its complex patterns. It could be an introduction, a warning, or a trap. In Tau Ceti, the first star system humans have ever visited, they discover worlds possessing life but no higher forms of intelligence. And with a saboteur still in their midst, tensions rise as the ship and its team hurtle toward a meeting more than three millennia in the making.

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