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Charon's ark by Richard Gauger is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Charon's ark about?
A planeload of high-school students, their teacher, and the airliners crew are hijacked in midair by an alien spacecraft. The aliens take them to their crazily-malfunctioning starship Ark, which we know as the planet Pluto and its moon Charon. Sixty-five million years ago, the Ark came to Earth to collect plants and animals. It was ship-wrecked and stranded in our solar system. Now its alien crew intends to force the teenagers to learn to operate the Ark, so it can continue on its multi-billion year mission of sowing life among the stars. The humans are flabbergasted of course, but life-change is not unwelcome to two of them. One is copilot Froward, whose drinking, womanizing, and general fecklessness are about to cost him his career. The other is misfit student Charlie Freeman, a casualty on the battlefield of puberty. Hes with the group only by the whim of his teacher, Mrs. Robinelli. Aboard the plane are two other women who are about to be important in Frowards life: Gershner, the stewardess, who is Frowards lover, and sharp-thinking sixteen-year-old Chela Suarez. Charlie is intrigued and puzzled by the aliens ineptitude. He is contacted by a sinister new entity: the Proctor. Th
Who reads Charon's ark?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Richard Gauger
- Publisher
- New York, NY: Ballantine Books
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780345317735
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science Fiction, Fiction, Science
- Rating
- 3.3 / 5 (28 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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