Survival: A Novel (Star Quest Trilogy, 3)

Survival: A Novel (Star Quest Trilogy, 3)

<p>Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with <i>Death Wave</i> and <i>Apes and Angels</i>. In <i>Surivival</i>, a human team sent to scout a few hundred lightyears in front of the death wave encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences.</p><p>These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons, and have survived earlier “death waves,” gamma ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm them, and utterly uninterested in helping to save other civilizations, organic or machine.</p><p>But now that the humans have discovered them, they refuse to allow them to leave their planet, reasoning that other humans will inevitably follow if they learn of their existence.</p><p><u>The Star Quest Trilogy</u><br>#1 Death Wave<br>#2 Apes and Angels<br>#3 Survival</p>