In the first book, Ben had ordered a strange object from eBay. It turned out to be the missing part from an alien spacecraft. One with an AI that needed a crew so it could pass itself off as a non-AI …
Jerry Anderson was an astronaut faced with an impossible die of asphyxiation in a few hours or see if the alien pod he was transporting really was an escape pod and find out if it could actually save …
Four months ago, the Crickets — the Chhrt'ktk't, in their own language — had abandoned a mobile shipyard with a burned-out hyperdrive core in Sol system, as a decoy. They hadn’t told humanity about th…
