Death Wave
The Star Quest Trilogy, Book 1
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Death Wave
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Ben Bova
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Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system.
In Ben Bova's previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system, where they discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien AI survived, and it revealed to Jordan Kell that an explosion in the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has created a wave of deadly radiation, expanding out from the core toward Earth. Unless the human race acts to save itself, all life on Earth will be wiped out.
When Kell and his team return to Earth many years after their departure, they find that their world has changed almost beyond recognition. Not only has a second wave of greenhouse flooding caused sea levels to rise, but society has been changed by the consequences of the climate shift. Few people want to face Jordan Kell's news. He must convince Earth's new rulers that the human race is in danger of extinction unless it acts to forestall the death wave coming from the galaxy's heart.
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Yes the shelves are bulging with plot lines that the earth is in danger and our only option is to turn to space for help or rescue. But to ask people to help an unknown civilisation at a distance so far that the global population will have been renewed by a further five generations before we might know if we have been successful. This is where I found the storyline to be weak as the earth's population agrees to help too easily and there is very little debate about the issue. If you look at what's happening around the world at present with the lack of urgency present over the need to remove man made greenhouse gases in order to reduce the risk of near catastrophic climate changes in 30 - 50 years time, why would we agree that we will help alien planets 400 years in the future.
This is just the first book in a series of four so I am curious what way the plot will develop. But even allowing for my opinion of a defect in the plot the story is quite good 4out of 5 at the moment, not an excellent 5/5 but with three books to go there is room for anything to happen
Very thoughtful
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OK but a bit slow
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ALLMOST NOTHING HAPPENS in the entire book. I guess this is what the cold war felt like. Anyone COULD do something but no-one does.
This is not even the first book in the series.
It starts off after an expedition returns 200 years after leaving earth and finding a new planet that is also inhabited by humans.
I will not go into other details, if you get to dear the book the very few interesting parts are far and wide between.
Also the entire SF in this book is mostly old-fashion-so-advanced-it-could-be-magic. It's the same stile of "SF" the old authors use, very close to atomic this and intrinsic that. In this case it is "Dark Energy" and "Energy Screens".
So bottom line: Good that it's included or it would be a return. Much better books to listen to out there and not worth imho.
Naive crap
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Annoying female character
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