- New York Times bestseller, Quests (Expeditions), Fiction, Space ships
"The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope--something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don't decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage so large, no other nation can compete. A conclusion the Chinese definitely agree with when they find out. The race is on, and a remarkable adventure begins..."--
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- John Sandford, Ctein
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 636
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group, G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101987520
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A Pulitzer-winning American journalist, John Roswell Camp was asked to write the _Prey_ series of novels under the pseudonym John Sandford. With the popularity of that series, he continued to use the same pseudonym for subsequent novels, including even the sequels to Camp's earlier Kidd novels.
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