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Ship of Destiny

By: Frank Chadwick
Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
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Sam Bitka, a naval reserve officer, is recalled to wartime service and soon earns a reputation for aggressive tactics and insufficient deference to his academy-graduated superiors. His latest run-in with authority earns him a transfer to command of an armed transport, USS Cam Ranh Bay.

When a mysterious alien probe materializes from Jump Space and remotely reprograms The Bay's star drive, Sam and his crew begin an involuntary voyage that takes them three thousand light years out of known space, across the galactic rift to the Sagittarius Spiral Arm, and into the heart of an ancient, previously unknown civilization - the first encountered by Humans and the other five races of the Cottohazz-Stellar Commonwealth - in over a century. The genetically altered immortals known as the Guardians, a race so old they do not remember their own origins, soon turn murderously violent.

Now Sam and his crew must elude capture by the Guardians, find some means of reprograming their own star drive, and then return to the Cottohazz with the news of a powerful new civilization bent on their destruction. But they may also be carrying the secrets of the origin of their own star drive and of the path to immortality.

©2020 Frank Chadwick (P)2021 Tantor Fiction Military Science Fiction Space Exploration Space Opera Interstellar
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A good sequel to the first book, maybe better. Would look forward to a third.

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This book is absorbing in many levels. A glimpse of our own mortality set in a drama of the universe we live in. I would love more on this theme.

Beautiful

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Strong points of this book are it's unwavering logic and coherence to it's own rules, Characters drive the plot not vice versa. Very surprising elements of this world are revealed making the previous book mere 'prequel' to the real story.

Inventive entertaining and clever world

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One of the best sci-fi books I have listened to. Great story without the usual clichés. Brilliantly performed

Superb

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Brilliant series, the one thing that annoyed me was that there were so many loose ends.

Great book

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