The Sins of the Fathers - Kyyra, Bk 1 Author:Stanley Schmidt A scientific expedition returns from deep space, and brings back shocking news: the galactic core has exploded -- and the Earth is doomed! — The Archaeopteryx, one of mankind's first FTL ships, was sent on an innocent mission: to travel to a sufficient distance from a certain supernova to observe it as it would have appeared on Earth one hundred ... more »thirty years ago.
But when Donald Lewiston, the mission's astronomer, saw the anamoly... he went mad.
By the time the Archaeopteryx returned to Earth, only Jonel Turabian, the Ship's Mate-along with the craft's computers-possessed the key to understanding Lewiston's sudden insanity... and Earth's approaching doom. The only way out of certain death for all of humankind would come from an unearthly source with as devastating a proposal as the approaching insterstellar doom itself.
Includes a new introduction by Ben Bova, editor of the original magazine serial, and the essay "How to Move the Earth" by the author.
Volume One of Stanley Schmidt's Classic Tale of the Planet in Peril« less