Rigel Kentaurus

Rigel Kentaurus

by Rick Novy
Rigel Kentaurus

Rigel Kentaurus

by Rick Novy

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Overview

Title: Rigel Kentaurus
Category: Novel
Classification: Science Fiction, Action/adventure,
Length: 91,000 words

It's the first human voyage outside the solar system, and Proxima Centauri is the destination. The crew of the sleeper ship Deep Space discovers we are not alone, and not everyone out there is nice.

Diverted to Alpha Centauri A (Rigel Kentaurus) to fetch and return a faster-than-light prototype, the crew learns that humanity is the only civilization to ever solve the light barrier problem.

Now, Deep Space must defend it as a military secret, because the mysterious Betels have been at war with the brutal Thrace since before mankind discovered fire-all with sublight space travel.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781470123154
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 03/14/2012
Pages: 252
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Rick Novy makes his home in a suburb of that great metropolitan desert region of Arizona known as Phoenix. He grew up in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater with a bachelor of science degree in physics and mathematics.

His fiction has appeared in respectable publications, including
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Flash Fiction Online, M-Brane SF, and Tales of the Talisman. He is a member of Codex Writers Group and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
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