Iota Cycle

"There's a problem with Iota Horologii. We lost contact three days ago."

Russell Lutz's first novel, Iota Cycle, chronicles the creation and development of a human colony fifty-six light years from Earth. At the beginning of the Twenty-Third Century, the colonization ship Hermione, under the watchful care of two androids, brings one hundred thousand settlers to the planets and moons of the Iota Horologii system.

The colony takes its initial, hesitant steps as amateur flier Eliot Burke pilots...