Mission One, by Samuel Best
A 2001-inspired first contact novel.
Sky City, 2017, 419 pages
Five months to Titan. Four brave crew members. One incredible mystery.
Jeff Dolan always wanted to be an astronaut. After helping a private space company build a ship that can travel to Saturn's largest moon in five months, he gets his chance.
Shortly after launch, a devastating malfunction forces Jeff and the crew to make a choice: continue to Titan or go back home. As the truth about their mission unravels, one thing is clear: Someone on Earth knew about the system flaw and covered it up.
Yet surviving the journey isn't the crew's only concern. Even if they make it to Titan, they will face another problem: Something is already there.
Dry, fairly high on the SF hardness scale, clearly self-published.
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Sky City, 2017, 419 pages
Five months to Titan. Four brave crew members. One incredible mystery.
Jeff Dolan always wanted to be an astronaut. After helping a private space company build a ship that can travel to Saturn's largest moon in five months, he gets his chance.
Shortly after launch, a devastating malfunction forces Jeff and the crew to make a choice: continue to Titan or go back home. As the truth about their mission unravels, one thing is clear: Someone on Earth knew about the system flaw and covered it up.
Yet surviving the journey isn't the crew's only concern. Even if they make it to Titan, they will face another problem: Something is already there.
Dry, fairly high on the SF hardness scale, clearly self-published.
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