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Only the infinite historical experiences of teeming Terra offered a guide to the problems to be faced by the future imitators of Christopher Columbus and Captain Cook.
This was very obvious in the case of the fifth planet-colony to be visited by the recontact ship Daedalus. For the struggle for food had become bitter and hard and the main human colony there had slid back to grim fundamentals. The Earth parallel lay in the presence, across an "impassable" ocean of another continent, another human colony, long isolated and alienated.
The solution was there but the voyage would rival that of Christopher Colombus - and all the clever science brought from faraway Earth was no substitute for old-fashioned courage and pioneering risk.
Ecology, psychology, and oceanography supply the framework that makes BALANCE OF POWER memorable - and timely.
Cover by Don Maitz
Published by DAW in January 1979.
ISBN:0-87997-437-0
The infinite historical experiences of teeming Terra would always offer a helpful guide to the problems faced by space explorers in the future.
This was very obvious in the case of the fifth planet-colony visited by the recontact ship Daedalus. For the struggle for food had become hard and bitter, and the main human colony there had slid back to grim fundamentals.
The Earth parallel lay in the presence, across an "impassable" ocean, of another continent, another human colony long isolated and alienated.
The solution was there but the voyage would rival that of Christopher Colombus And all the clever science brought from faraway Earth was no substitute for old-fashioned courage and pioneering risk.
Published by Hamlyn in January 1984.
ISBN:0-09-933200-0
They call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost colonies in space. Alex Alexander, the ship's biologist, together with his staff, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that he encounters light-years from home.
The planet Attica has two continents: Lambda and Delta. The indigenous alien population being restricted to Delta, Earth's colony was planted on Lambda. Before the arrival of the Daedalus, two sailing ships had set out from Lambda to cross the ocean separating the two continents, and neither had returned. Now a third is on its way, and Mariel Valory and Alex Alexander of the Daedalus have hitched a lift, in order that Mariel might use her talent to try to make contact with the aliens. Unfortunately, it turns out that contact has already been made, and that the aliens are building an empire with the aid of borrowed Terran technology--an empire that's beginning to crack under its internal strains and eternal challenges. And when Alex and Mariel are marooned by their reluctant hosts, things start to go from very bad to much worse....
Daedalus Mission, Book Five.
Published by Wildside Press in December 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4344-4402-8
The planet Attica has two continents: Lambda and Delta. The indigenous alien population being restricted to Delta, Earth’s colony was planted on Lambda. Before the arrival of the Daedalus, two sailing ships had set out from Lambda to cross the ocean separating the two continents, and neither had returned. Now a third is on its way, and Mariel Valory and Alex Alexander of the Daedalus have hitched a lift, in order that Mariel might use her talent to try to make contact with the aliens. Unfortunately, it turns out that contact has already been made, and that the aliens are building an empire with the aid of borrowed Terran technology–an empire that’s beginning to crack under its internal strains and eternal challenges. And when Alex and Mariel are marooned by their reluctant hosts, things start to go from very bad to much worse….
Published by Orion (ebook) in September 2018.
ISBN: 978-1-4732-1947-2
