Review: This is an interesting and novel science fiction tale
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2011
This futuristic science fiction e-book novel is exciting, suspenseful, and sometimes humorous. The characters are interesting and finely drawn. Retired secret service agent Heath, a human, tries to buy a seat on a space transport and discovers that someone has bought all of the seats. Cassie, an attractive human female, who is much younger than Heath, who is standing in behind him in the ticket line, offers him her extra ticket. Heath want to visit the planet to which the transport is traveling to find out what happened to the vanished peaceful Tobrii race. They disappeared without a trace. The waiting room is filled with diverse beings from many planets. One race, for example, is comprised of people with two personalities that sometimes argue with each other. Another race is made up of people with no hearts. Each being must consciously move its blood about its body. This race is unable to sleep, for if it became unconscious it would be unable to move its blood about and would die. Entering the spaceship, Heath discovers that there are only seven passengers on board and two crewmembers. Why did someone want the ship to carry so few passengers?The tourists examine the Tobrii ruins. Some Tobrii articles are found. They hear a scream and find that the spaceship pilot has been disintegrated to dust. Now they are stranded until a new tourist ship arrives, but, in the interval, more of the nine people are disintegrated.What is happening, how is it happening, and why? Also, what happened in the past to the Tobrii, how, and why? Is there a relationship between the current and the past events? If yes, why is it happening now; tourists have visited the planet for decades without any adverse incident? The answers to these questions are unusual and unexpected.