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The Starchild Compact Paperback | Pages: 396 pages
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ISBN: 1533224323 (ISBN13: 9781533224323)
Edition Language: English

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"The Starchild Compact" is an epic tale of beginnings, roots, what might have been, and what might be. It is an adventure of heroic proportions, commencing 500 light years away, arriving here just a few years from now, and ending in the distant expanses of the Universe.
Jon Stock takes his international exploration team to Saturn's moon, Iapetus, that earth scientists have determined may be an artifact. Following launch, they discover Saeed Ismail, a Jihadist stowaway, who hopes to sabotage the mission.
They arrive at Iapetus, determine it is a derelict starship, and eventually meet with the Founders, descendants of the starship builders. Their revelations impact the entire Solar System with momentous implications going backward and forward in time, paving the way for a joint push to the distant reaches of the Galaxy.

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Title:The Starchild Compact
Author:Robert G. Williscroft
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 396 pages
Published:May 11th 2016 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform (first published December 9th 2014)
Categories:Novels

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Excellent except for the epilogue

There is possibly alien construction on Iapetus. This book describes the initial voyage out to find out the truth. But the ship has a stowaway - a radical terrorist who is planning to destroy the mission. Will the crew find him? Will they make it to Iapetus?While the book starts describing a mission to Iapetus - a place where there could be alien construction - it quickly takes the whole hard science approach to a new level. The book was well written. A little dry at first, but quickly you got

Is Iapetus, one of Saturns moons, an artifact, a derelict starship or just a moon? In his Foreword, the author says he was motivated by certain geographical features, such as a twenty km high and wide equatorial ridge to research Iapetus and write this hard science fiction novel which contains a lot of meticulously researched science. Yes, it does, and the result is what readers often find in the best hard science fiction: a story presented so convincingly and well that it blurs the line between

Are we alone in the universe is a question pondered by many. Some say yes, some say no. I think we would be arrogant to assume that we are, and stupid to think we are not. But I also think that it is unlikely that we will find it on our doorstep. Williscroft has produced a scenario where, indeed it might be on our doorstep, all that is required is the want or maybe need to find it.Even NASA agrees that Saturn has an unusual moon, we call it Iapetus. Williscroft puts forward the concept that

The universe is filled with cosmic oddities, and some of these are right in our own celestial backyard. For example, consider the moons of Saturn. Titan has a landscape composed of heavy hydrocarbons, where it rains liquid methane. The third largest moon orbiting this gas giant, named Iapetus, appears to be a standard rocky orb, but has a peculiarly regular belt of 20-kilometer-high mountains girdling its equator. Additionally, the surface is marked by a pattern of regular hexagons, some of

***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM A GOODREADS GIVEAWAY***With the popularity of The Martian bringing hard science into the realm of science fiction, there has been a bit of a resurgence of including accurate science in near-term speculative fiction. On the one hand, the book must remain readable to a wide audience, so the science shouldn't bog down too much of the exposition. On the other hand, if some of the science is not explained, it can leave less scientifically educated readers in the dark

I received this book as part of a Goodreads giveaway.There was a little too much technical information, most of which went right over my head, but overall I enjoyed the story.The human race extends its space exploration and sends a mission to one of the moons of Saturn, Iapetus. Upon arrival, the crew of the Cassini II finds not a planet, but a massive starship. Further exploration of the ship begins to reveal more than just the presence of intelligent life in the universe, but intelligent life