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Susanna Burney
NASA discovered the alien ship lurking in the asteroid belt in the 1960's. They kept the Target under intense surveillance for decades, letting the public believe they were exploring the solar system, while they worked feverishly to refine the technology needed to reach it.
The ship itself remained silent, drifting.
Dr. Jane Holloway is content documenting nearly-extinct languages and had never contemplated becoming an astronaut. But when NASA recruits her to join a team of military scientists for an expedition to the Target, it's an adventure she can't refuse.
The ship isn't vacant, as they presumed.
A disembodied voice rumbles inside Jane's head, "You are home".
Jane fights the growing doubts of her colleagues as she attempts to decipher what the alien wants from her. As the derelict ship devolves into chaos and the crew gets cut off from their escape route, Jane must decide if she can trust the alien's help to survive.
©2014 Jennifer Foehner Wells (P)2014 Jennifer Foehner WellsListeners also enjoyed...




















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A Great First Book -- I await the rest
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Really enjoyed this.
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Not my thing
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I immersed into the story quickly.
Having read hardly any science fiction with female main characters it is a refreshing difference in perspective.
Excellent choice in narrator.
Enjoyed it very much
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Hindered by romance angle, entertaining though
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Great story and pace.
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pretty good
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Feminist Scifi
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Make no mistake, no research was done for this book, far from it. Nor any basic Google searches on NASA or manned spaceflight or radiation, or anything else. Over and over again incredibly naive things were stated as fact. In addition, the characters were idiots and behaved like playground children, lots of attitude and no thought, definitely not highly trained astronauts with a year of training for the mission. All of this broke the continuity and the enjoyment for me.
I liked the story. I really did. But it almost hurt to read it, the horrible science and the things that the characters were saying and doing were just so stupid. Here's hoping the author learns something about science and spaceflight before the next book.
Science Fiction without the science
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(1) Human/humanity centrism. I find the idea that our species is in anyway significant or important to anyone besides ourselves to be repugnant. This books attaches religious and messianic significance to humanity, ridiculous. A far more likely scenario is that we encounter far more advanced species that have known about us for thousands of years, but chose to leave us alone because we're so stupid, or decides to take over before we destroy ourselves.
(2) Super advanced star flight capable species being religious. If humanity is any indication, then technological and scientific progress is inversely related to religiosity. The more advanced you are, the less religious. It is more likely that organized religion would be a ridiculous to star travelers as human sacrifice is to us.
These are the two that turned me off to this book.
Several common characteristics I don't like.
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