Derelict

by Robert L. Hovorka Jr.

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441142540
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Ace
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

First contact novel blends suspense and a race against time.

The PSL Goddess enters a spatial anomaly to jump the tens of light years between anomalies. There is a systems failure and the Goddess is abandoned just before breaking apart. Ensign Pamela Dubois is now in charge of a lifeboat, her first command with the responsibility for the lives of her twelve passengers. The lifeboats slips through the anomaly to a distant star, not their intended system but a system with no planets at all. That is nothing here except for a derelict alien spaceship just outside the star's halo. First Contact. All their hails go unacknowledged. They approach the derelict and enter through a hanger door, only to have it close, trapping them inside. Their only option is to explore the derelict, find the bridge and use the hanger door controls to reopen those doors. As they begin explorations the derelict adjusts the internal environment to suit the humans. The derelict is not lifeless at all and has a "need" which focuses on the humans. One by one, through misfortune or misadventure they are lost to the alien spaceship. The race begins, in order to survive Ensign Pamela Dubois must get her lifeboat and passengers off this alien spaceship before the derelict picks them off one by one.