Product Description

2096. Le Starplex est un immense vaisseau construit par le Commonwealth des planètes afin d’explorer l’espace. Pour le commandant Keith Lansing, établir le premier contact avec de nouvelles civilisations n’est pas chose aisée quand son propre équipage est lui-même composé de Terriens et d’extraterrestres aux points de vue divergents… Batailles dans l’espace intersidéral, déplacements spaciaux supraluminiques et extraterrestres déroutants au sommaire de cette nouvelle variation sur la thématique du premier contact.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #782000 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-04
• Released on: 2002-07-04
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 317 pages

From Library Journal
Multiple award-winning Canadian author Sawyer offers an epic hard-science space adventure full of technical descriptions of starships and physics tempered by human concerns. In 2094, scientists on the Starplex study the mysterious artificial wormholes that make space travel routine and convenient. Then the wormholes' creators appear, and the scientists must understand and communicate with them to save the galaxy. Highly recommended for sf collections.
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From Booklist
Entertaining and episodic, Starplex is a tale of interstellar exploration and adventure rather like a reconceptualized and debugged Star Trek. In the twenty-first century, the human race has both developed faster-than-light travel and contacted nonhuman intelligent races. Starplex, under the command of Keith Lansing, is one of the contact makers. Lansing faces hostile crew members, the personal and cultural idiosyncracies of nonhumans, the problems of first contact, and a marriage that may be deteriorating. No one, probably including Sawyer, will claim great originality for the yarn. Technically, it is good rather than great, yet it emphatically works, will draw readers, and may be the opening of a long-running series. Roland Green

Ingram
Twenty years after the discovery of artificial wormholes launches Earth space exploration to unforeseeable heights, Starplex Director Keith Lansing investigates a mysterious vessel that soon threatens the station with intergalactic war.