Starplex

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From Library Journal

Multiple award-winning Canadian author Sawyer offers an epic hard-science space adventure full of technical descriptions of starships and physics tempered by human concerns. In 2094, scientists on the Starplex study the mysterious artificial wormholes that make space travel routine and convenient. Then the wormholes' creators appear, and the scientists must understand and communicate with them to save the galaxy. Highly Recommended for sf collections.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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From Booklist

Entertaining and episodic, Starplex is a tale of interstellar exploration and adventure rather like a reconceptualized and debugged Star Trek. In the twenty-first century, the Human Race has both developed faster-than-light travel and contacted nonhuman intelligent races. Starplex, under the command of Keith Lansing, is one of the contact makers. Lansing faces hostile crew members, the personal and cultural idiosyncracies of nonhumans, the problems of first contact, and a marriage that may be deteriorating. No one, probably including Sawyer, will claim great originality for the yarn. Technically, it is good rather than great, yet it emphatically works, will draw readers, and may be the opening of a long-running series. Roland Green
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Review

"The ultimate grand tour!" - Jack McDevitt
"For big-time interstellar adventure, look no farther."
-Gregory Benford
"Starplex should gladden the hearts of readers who complain that nobody's writing real Science Fiction anymore, the kind of story that has faster-than-light spaceships and far-off planets and interstellar combat. Sawyer Deftly Juggles half a dozen sweeping questions of cosmology (not to mention everyday ethics and morality) while keeping the story moving ahead full speed.
Enjoy."
-Asimov's Science Fiction
"Highly Recommended."
-Library Journal

About the Author

Robert J. Sawyer has won the Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell, Memorial, Seium and Aurora Awards, all for best Science Fiction novel of the year.