Second Star (Star Svensdotter Series #1) [NOOK Book]

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Overview

When the Betelgeuse message was detected, it changed a lot of things on Earth. We began to look seriously outward, not with the heady optimism of the early days, but with deliberate calculation. We knew that Someone was out there, and that eventually, they’d be coming. If Earth didn’t occupy the High Frontier, it could be ours to lose.

Esther “Star” Svensdotter’s job is overseeing the completion of the American Alliance’s first O’Neill cylinder — a massive space hab capable of supporting thousands of colonists. It’s just weeks away from commissioning, and she’ll be damned if Luddite terrorists, squabbling bureaucrats, military takeovers or rogue AIs ...
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Overview

When the Betelgeuse message was detected, it changed a lot of things on Earth. We began to look seriously outward, not with the heady optimism of the early days, but with deliberate calculation. We knew that Someone was out there, and that eventually, they’d be coming. If Earth didn’t occupy the High Frontier, it could be ours to lose.

Esther “Star” Svensdotter’s job is overseeing the completion of the American Alliance’s first O’Neill cylinder — a massive space hab capable of supporting thousands of colonists. It’s just weeks away from commissioning, and she’ll be damned if Luddite terrorists, squabbling bureaucrats, military takeovers or rogue AIs will stand in the way. Frontier justice on Ellfive sometimes involves an airlock — you don’t want to be on the wrong side of justice. Or the wrong side of Star Svensdotter.

The first in Dana Stabenow’s Star Svensdotter trilogy, Second Star is a tale of first contact, declarations of independence, and new frontiers.

Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940013251342
  • Publisher: Gere Donovan Press
  • Publication date: 10/28/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 10,471
  • Series: Star Svensdotter Series , #1
  • File size: 447 KB

Meet the Author

Dana Stabenow was born in Anchorage and raised on 75-foot fish tender in the Gulf of Alaska. She knew there was a warmer, drier job out there somewhere and after having a grand old time working in the Prudhoe Bay oilfields on the North Slope of Alaska, making an obscene amount of money and going to Hawaii a lot, found it in writing.

Her first crime fiction novel, A Cold Day for Murder, won an Edgar award, her first thriller, Blindfold Game, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and her twenty-eighth novel and nineteenth Kate Shugak novel, Restless in the Grave, comes out in February 2012.

Find her on the web at stabenow.com.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 25, 2012

    Great read

    Enjoyed it very much, I will read the second in the series.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted January 19, 2012

    Good story, wirth the time to read.

    It shows what it may be like to work and live day to day in space.

    The ending was not expected however was fun to thing on. Liked all the items to outher stories I have read overy the years.

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  • Posted December 21, 2011

    Space adventure!

    Long out of print, I am glad to see these books available again. The main character, Star Svensdotter, has overtones of Ms. Stabenow's better-known heroine, Kate Shugak, but stands on her own as a strong and interesting protagonist. Thank you, Donovan Press, for bringing her back!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 14, 2012

    Very good book!

    I enjoyed this book a great deal and look forward to reading others in the series.

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