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Starplex by Sawyer, Robert J; Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) DLC is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Starplex about?
Editorial Reviews From Library Journal Multiple award-winning Canadian author Sawyer offers an epic hard-science space adventure full of technical descriptions of starships and physics tempered by human concerns. In 2094, scientists on the Starplex study the mysterious artificial wormholes that make space travel routine and convenient. Then the wormholes' creators appear, and the scientists must understand and communicate with them to save the galaxy. Highly recommended for sf collections. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Entertaining and episodic, Starplex is a tale of interstellar exploration and adventure rather like a reconceptualized and debugged Star Trek. In the twenty-first century, the human race has both developed faster-than-light travel and contacted nonhuman intelligent races. Starplex, under the command of Keith Lansing, is one of the contact makers. Lansing faces hostile crew members, the personal and cultural idiosyncracies of nonhumans, the problems of first contact, and a marriage that may be deteriorating. No one, probably including Sawyer, will claim great originality for the yarn. Technically, it is good rather than great, yet it emp
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- Author
- Sawyer, Robert J; Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
- Publisher
- New York: Ace Books
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780441003723
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- History, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.75 / 5 (1,110 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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