Apes and Angels
Apes and Angels by Ben Bova, published by Macmillan on November 22, 2016, is a science fiction narrative that continues the Star Quest Trilogy, following the events of Death Wave. This edition spans 416 pages and is presented in English. The story chronicles humanity’s urgent mission to save intelligent life across the galaxy from an impending catastrophe—a lethal wave of gamma radiation that threatens to annihilate all life in its path.
In this installment, the crew of the spaceship Odysseus arrives at Mithra Gamma, a planet inhabited by stone-age beings, with the goal of protecting them from the approaching Death Wave. Guided by ancient intelligent machines known as the Predecessors, the characters navigate the complexities of alien contact and space exploration while grappling with the dual challenge of safeguarding the planet’s inhabitants and their own survival. Apes and Angels delves into themes of action and adventure within the hard science fiction genre, offering readers a glimpse into the perils and responsibilities of interstellar expansion.
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Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind’s expansion beyond the solar system in Apes and Angels, the second book of the Star Quest Trilogy, which began with Death Wave.
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 harbor 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.
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