Martin Caidin

An accident in outer space catapults a lone astronaut into the 25th century where he becomes involved in a sinister plot to conquer Earth.

405 pages ; 18 cm

Just as the US and the USSR have finally settled their; differences, American scientists discover that the Solar System is about to pass through a cloud of cosmic dust that will incite the Sun to a paroxysm of fury. All will die. There can be no escape--except, possibly, for a very; few. This is their story.

December 7th, 1980. The United States Naval Carrier Nimitz is the finest warship in the world. She is carrying a nuclear payload that can level a continent. And a fleet of fighter jets that can deliver it. Her crew is a handpicked one-like Captain Matthew Yelland, who endured the torture of the Viet Cong and did not break. And Warren Lasky, the civilian 'think-tank' who designed the warship to weather any battle. But a nightmare journey has brought her to a place where no amount of brains or courage can help. To a battle that no man can win. Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941...

A highly intelligent government expert who is badly maimed in a nuclear accident is given another chance, and a new purpose, when his scientist fiance invents a realisticly human-looking mechanical exo-skeleton just for him. She's given him a new body, in fact many new bodies of different physical appearances and enhanced strength to overcome his handicaps, but she can't give him the courage to overcome the emotional scars. He must learn to do that himself. Now a terrorist organization threatens to set off a nuke if their demands are not met. Can our newly-empowered hero overcome his pain and use his wits and new mechanical body to beat the clock and save the lives of thousands?

"From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity's future might be its undoing ... Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Suh-Mi into the unknown. More than twenty-two years have passed since Ren and the rest of the faithful braved the starry abyss and established a colony at the base of an enigmatic alien structure where Suh-Mi has since resided, alone. All that time, Ren has worked hard as the colony's 3-D printer engineer, creating the tools necessary for human survival in an alien environment, and harboring a devastating secret. Ren continues to perpetuate the lie forming the foundation of the colony for the good of her fellow colonists, despite the personal cost. Then a stranger appears, far too young to have been part of the first planetfall, a man who bears a remarkable resemblance to Suh-Mi. The truth Ren has concealed since planetfall can no longer be hidden. And its revelation might tear the colony apart.."--