Slow train to Arcturus
By: by Eric Flint & Dave Freer.
Contributors: Freer, Dave.
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Riverdale, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781416555858
Subjects: Life on other planets -- Fiction; Human-alien encounters -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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.