Mars Schlagwort

Wenn ich über ein Buch lese, in dem eine Frgat­te aus dem 18. Jahr­hun­dert vor­kommt und die dann auch noch im Orbit des Mer­kur kämpft, dann hält mich nicht mehr viel: das muss ich haben. Bestellt ist es schon, aber ich dach­te, ich könn­te es euch eben­falls vor­stel­len. THE DAEDALUS INCIDENT wur­de ver­fasst von Micha­el J. Mar­ti­nez und ist bereits am 7. Mai 2013 erschie­nen. Werbetext:

Mars is sup­po­sed to be dead…
a fact Lt. Shai­la Jain of the Joint Space Com­mand is begin­ning to doubt in a bad way.

Freak qua­kes are rumb­ling over the long-dor­mant tec­to­nic pla­tes of the pla­net, dis­rup­t­ing its tril­li­on-dol­lar mining ope­ra­ti­ons and dri­ving sci­en­tists past the edges of theo­ry and rea­son. Howe­ver, when rocks shake off their anci­ent dust and begin to roll—seemingly of their own volition—carving cana­ls as they con­ver­ge to form a towe­ring struc­tu­re amid the rud­dy ter­rain, Lt. Jain and her JSC team rea­li­ze that their rea­li­ze that their rou­ti­ne geo­lo­gi­cal sur­vey of a Mar­ti­an cave sys­tem is anything but. The only clues they have stem from the emis­si­ons of a mys­te­rious blue radia­ti­on, and a 300-year-old jour­nal that is wri­ting itself.

Lt. Tho­mas Wea­ther­by of His Majesty’s Roy­al Navy is an honest 18th-cen­tu­ry man of modest begin­nings, doing his part for King and Coun­try aboard the HMS Daeda­lus, a fri­ga­te sai­ling the high seas bet­ween continents…and the immense Void bet­ween the Known Worlds. Across the Solar Sys­tem and among its colonies—rife with plun­der and ali­en slave trade—through dire batt­les frau­ght with stran­ge alche­my, not­hing much can shake his resol­ve. But events are tran­spi­ring to chan­ge all that.

With the aid of his fier­ce cap­tain, a drug-add­led alche­mist, and a ser­vant girl with a remar­kab­le past, Wea­ther­by must track a gre­at and power­ful mys­tic, who has embar­ked upon a sinis­ter quest to upset the balan­ce of the planets—the con­se­quen­ces of which may reach far bey­ond the Solar Sys­tem, threa­tening the very fab­ric of space itself.

Set sail among the stars with this uncan­ny tale, whe­re adven­ture awaits, and dimen­si­ons collide!

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