Coming Home

Zusatztext Praise for Coming Home “An easy! approachable style of writing that is both quotidian and exciting…Reading Coming Home revitalizes proper pride in humanity—what it has accomplished today and what it will design! do! and discover tomorrow…An encomium both to history and the future…[and] a heartwarming tale of friendship and fun-filled adventure.”—SF Signal “Another McDevitt classic… Coming Home is easily on par with what we’ve come to expect from Jack McDevitt! and his fans will not be disappointed.”—AmazingStoriesMag.com “Classic hard science fiction.”— Florida Times-Union Informationen zum Autor Jack McDevitt Klappentext In this "fun-filled adventure"* from the Nebula Award-winning author of Beyond the Sky, Alex Benedict must pull off a crucial space rescue… Garnett Baylee devoted his life to trying, and failing, to find artifacts of the early space age. In the wake of his death, one was discovered in his home, raising tantalizing questions: Had he succeeded after all? Why had he kept it a secret? And where is the rest of the Apollo cache? Antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his pilot, Chase Kolpath, have no choice but to abandon the search for Baylee's artifacts in order to be present when the Capella-the interstellar transport that vanished years earlier in a time/space warp-is expected to reappear. There's only a window of a few hours to rescue the ship and the twenty-six hundred passengers aboard-including Alex's uncle, the man who raised him. As the deadline for the Capella's reappearance draws near, Alex fears that the puzzle of the artifacts will be lost yet again… "Exciting…SF in the classic mold."-*SF Signal ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Dates not classified as Common Era (C.E.) are based on the Rimway calendar. PROLOGUE 11,256 C.E. When Alex Benedict graduated high school, his uncle Gabe, the only parent he’d ever known, provided the ultimate gift: a flight to Earth, the home world, the place where everything had started. It was a mixed blessing, though. Alex had a hard time adjusting to interstellar travel, though he didn’t like to admit it. The jumps in and out of transdimensional space upset his stomach. And the constant changes in gravity levels never helped. But there was no way he would pass on the opportunity to see the oceans and mountains so prominent in his reading. And the great cities, Paris and Denver, Berlin and Shanghai. And the Alps and the Grand Canyon. The pyramids, the Great Wall, and the Arkon. And, for Gabe’s sake, he pretended to be enthusiastic about touring the world capital in Winnipeg. What most excited him was that Gabe had promised to include a visit to the Moon. That, of course, had been the stage for everything, where Neil Armstrong had climbed out of Apollo 11, stepped down onto the ground, and delivered his giant-leap statement. But he was surprised to discover, on their arrival, that Armstrong’s footprints were no longer there. “What happened to them?” he asked Gabe. His uncle frowned. “Actually, nobody knows.” Gabe was tall, with black hair beginning to gray, and sharp features that had been hardened by so many years digging into archeological sites under alien suns. “They were there for a while, but they disappeared during the Dark Age. Vandals, probably.” Gabe shook his head. “Idiots.” They were seated at a small round table in an observation lounge, drinking sodas and looking across the shops and hotels and cottages that covered the lunar surface at MoonWorld, the multiplex area reserved for tourists and shielded by a semitransparent dome. A few kilometers away, the cluster of walls and beams and platforms that had been the original Moonbase lay serenely in the vacuum, illuminated by the glow of the home world, which never moved from its position just over the horizon. Alex leaned back in his seat. “...

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• Autori: Jack Mcdevitt
• Editore: Ace Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9780425260883
• ISBN: 978-0-425-26088-3
• Pagine: 384
• Dimensioni: 107 mm x 173 mm x 24 mm
• Serie: Alex Benedict; An Alex Benedict Novel; An Alex Benedict Novel; Alex Benedict Novel; Penguin Publishing Group
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy