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Apes and angels

Bova, Ben, 1932-2016
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"Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it. A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy's core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth's vicinity at the speed of light. Every world it touched was wiped clean of all life. But it's possible to protect a planet from gamma radiation. Earth is safe. Now, guided by the ancient intelligent machines called the Predecessors, men and women from Earth seek out those precious, rare worlds that harbour intelligent species, determined to save them from the doom that is hurtling toward them. The crew of the Odysseus has arrived at Mithra Gamma, the third planet of the star Mithra, to protect the stone-age inhabitants from the Death Wave. But they'll also have to protect themselves"-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
Apes and angels / Ben Bova.
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : Tor, Tom Doherty Associates, [2016]©2016
Collation:
415 pages ; 22 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9780765379528 (hardback)076537952X (hardback)
Dewey class:
813.54
LC class:
PS3552.O84
Language:
English
BRN:
285855
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Brighton LibraryAdult Fiction - Sci-FiBOVAAvailable
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