Slow train to Arcturus
By: Eric Flint & Dave Freer
Contributors: Freer, Dave
Publisher: Baen; Diamond [distributor]
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Riverdale, N.Y; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9781439133484
Subjects: Life on other planets; Fiction; Human-alien encounters
Description: Sending a spaceship to rendezvous with an enormous vessel made up of a series of globular habitats approaching its star system, the aliens find a savage race calling themselves "humans" who promptly slaughter the exploration team, except for a single survivor who escapes to another habitat, where he finds more friendly humans whose help he requires to get back to his own ship.