"The story moves quickly with elements of both a spy thriller and a space race. science fiction at its best.”- The Galveston County Daily News Readers experience the wonder the astronauts feel on a remarkable voyage, groan as the Earth goes crazy as the expedition progresses, and thrill to a powerful conclusion. are the scaffolding on which a gripping tale is formed. Chiles nails the atmosphere of a NASA-run human spaceflight mission in the 21st century, the jargon of the mission controllers and astronauts, and the bureaucratic infighting characterizing today’s NASA. hard science fiction and an entertaining and gripping plot.
And the final answer lies at the edge of the Solar System, waiting to change everything.
The solution will challenge their beliefs about the nature of humanity, and will force the astronauts to confront the question of existence itself. Now during their long race to the Kuiper Belt, astronauts Jack Templeton and Traci Keene must unwind a decades-old mystery buried in the pages of a dead cosmonaut’s journal. Set to embark on NASA’s first expedition to the outer planets, the crew of the spacecraft Magellan learns someone else has beaten them by a few decades: a top-secret Soviet project codenamed Arkangel. THE BEGINNING OF LIFE AWAITS AT THE END OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.Ī FROZEN ANSWER AT THE EDGE OF PLANETARY SPACE