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Apes and Angels

The Star Quest Trilogy, Book 2

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Apes and Angels

Written by: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in Apes and Angels, the second installment in the Star Quest Trilogy.

Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it.

A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy's core 28,000 years ago and now is approaching Earth's vicinity at the speed of light. Every world it touched was wiped clean of all life. But it's possible to protect a planet from gamma radiation. Earth is safe.

Now, guided by the ancient intelligent machines called the Predecessors, men and women from Earth seek out those precious, rare worlds that harbor intelligent species, determined to save them from the doom that is hurtling toward them.

The crew of the Odysseus has arrived at Mithra Gamma, the third planet of the star Mithra, to protect the stone-age inhabitants from the Death Wave. But they'll also have to protect themselves.

©2016 Ben Bova (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Adventure Fantasy Fiction First Contact Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Exploration Space Opera Solar System Interstellar
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I enjoyed the story all the way through, and was very intrigued towards the end about how the story would end. The actual ending was a disappointment for me.

Good story. Disappointed by the ending

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I really enjoy these types of first encounters. All about communication and working together to solve a problem. Eventually characters putting aside politics and ego.

Good story

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Seems like the author gave up halfway thru. People are way too stupid or just plain refusing new ideas for no good reasons.

Story gets dumb halfway thru

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