Fiction

When a salvage ship at the outer edge of our solar system comes across a 500 year old vessel and find only one survivor of the original crew of 6, it raises lots of questions. When they revive the survivor (whose been in cold sleep most of the time) she tells them they've made First Contact. Yawn. Old news. Not so long after that ship went off on its journey to colonize some distant planet, aliens showed up in our solar system and we've been dealing with them ever since. They have incredible technology which they've shared with us, although they're known as Liars as most of what they say cannot be trusted.

Complications ensue.

It's the first of a trilogy, and the next one, The Dreaming Stars will be out in September. I'll probably read it.

What I find most amazing is that there's a lot of back story that's incredibly well handled. It's almost as if there had been several previous novels about the salvage ship and its crew, but so far as I can tell this is his first main stream science fiction. Everything else seems to have been fantasy, and I'm simply not a fantasy person.