Amazon.com: Spider Star: Books: Mike Brotherton
My new novel, Spider Star, to be released in March, is now available at amazon.com for pre-order. I also got a copy of Tor's advanced catalog (what they use to sell to the bookstores) and here's the entry for the book:
Humanity must be defended from the peril of an ancient out of control alien technology.
The human colony on the planet Argo has long explored and exploited the technology left behind by an alien race, a race long gone for hundreds of thousands of years. But then an archeology team accidentally activates a terrible weapon: a weapon that will destroy the entire colony, and its star, if they cannot deactivate it.
Evidence at the site suggests that the weapon was created for the ancient Argonauts by another race, a race of traders. The archaeologists discover a map of their interstellar trading empire, and the coordinates of their main trading station. Although the information is hundreds of thousands of years out of date, the only hope for Argo is to send a ship and crew into the unknown, to find the traders--or anyone who can help them find a way to shut down the weapon.
I fixed a misspelling in the above, but let the rest stand as it was written. Despite small errors on some of the details, it does get at the gist of the problem at the heart of the novel. Sounds like a Jack McDevitt novel to me, which can't be a bad thing.
I've got the cover art, too, in the catalog. At least in black and white. It looks good, I think, and a nice design overall. I'll post that when I get a digital copy.
Posted by Mike at August 8, 2007 09:13 AM