Spinneret

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781453272060

<DIV><B>A &ldquo;brisk and entertaining&rdquo; novel of a barren, mysterious planet that may save humanity&mdash;or destroy it&mdash;by the author of <I>Star Wars: Heir to the Empire </I>(<I>Publishers Weekly</I>).</B><BR /> &#160;</DIV><DIV>Chasing a new frontier, humankind sends a manned starship into the universe and away from the overpopulated Earth in hopes of finding a new planet to colonize. But every Earthlike world they discover is already inhabited. As it turns out, the universe is a very crowded place. An alien council offers to lease the one remaining uninhabited world: Astra, a bleak and barren but serviceable planet.&#160;The new settlement, though, quickly experiences serious problems, from dying crops to the mysterious disappearance of anything and everything that is made of metal. And then Astra reveals a secret neither the aliens nor the human governments could ever have imagined.</DIV>