When the Covenant entered the Thetti star system after a two hundred-year frozen voyage, her crew awakened to find a new world ripe for colonization. Meridian was everything they could have hoped for-a ripe, virgin world more than capable of supporting Terrestrial life. Tam, the leader of the mission, suspects something is amiss when he glimpses a strange light over the planet...and a previously charted moon disappears.
Sloppy work? Space anomalies? Or something new and sinister?Portions of this novel first appeared as HEAVEN'S COVENANT in the September 2017 issue of Analog Science Fiction/Fact and in December 2008 as VIXEN by Cosmos Books
When the Covenant entered the Thetti star system after a two hundred-year frozen voyage, her crew awakened to find a new world ripe for colonization. Meridian was everything they could have hoped for-a ripe, virgin world more than capable of supporting Terrestrial life. Tam, the leader of the mission, suspects something is amiss when he glimpses a strange light over the planet...and a previously charted moon disappears.
Sloppy work? Space anomalies? Or something new and sinister?Portions of this novel first appeared as HEAVEN'S COVENANT in the September 2017 issue of Analog Science Fiction/Fact and in December 2008 as VIXEN by Cosmos Books