Review: " Gentleman " Bertram said " I think you need a lesson on curiosity."
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 5, 2012
The USS Magellan  an interstellar exploration ship , it's FTL ( faster than light ) capabilities means it's able to travel to  other solar systems in weeks or months rather than years. During the last century at a time of social and political upheaval , Earth built five massive colony ships and sent them off to the five nearest galaxies, never to be heard from again. It was now the USS Magellan's mission to find, evaluate and if possible offer minimal assistance as well report there findings to Earth, failing this to search for some indication of there fate. Lieutenant junior grade Linda Kay Daniels is Earths and her space services newest heroine, responsible for uncovering and disrupting at great peril, a Venusian plot to drop nuclear weapons on major Earth  cities.  Linda Kay, only twenty one with her degree in Physics ( with honours) and a minor in Nuclear Engineering is assigned to her dream billet in engineering aboard the USS Magellan. This assignment  at just over a year in length and will test the limits of the crew and vessel. Five unknown galaxies with Earth like planets, five very different vessels each with over 10,000 colonists. All with at least one common defect causing five very different consequences. The search  is not difficult, the solutions were. They have an idea where the ships were headed, they just didn't know they would be the second vessel to encounter a hostile race of aliens!This is another enjoyable story, the main character Linda Kay is engaging and a sympathetic character. The secondary characters are well drawn and situations believable. The science realistic and supports the story with out overwhelming it. Linda may have been the solution and go to girl at the upper limits of believability but it still worked. All in all a fun story.