Artifact Space

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All of a sudden, we have spacecraft and objects both coming into our solar system and leaving for interstellar space. This is highly unusual, and very intriguing. Also looking forward to the 2nd in the Age of Bronze books. Which I'm predicting will end up as a mixed genre scifi/fantasy creation. Miles Cameron has created a unique, believable, universe. Great characters and their relationships are core to making this story enthralling. The width of the Oort Cloud is not known precisely, but it is estimated to begin at about 1,000 astronomical units (AU) from the sun and to extend to about 100,000 AU. One AU is the distance from the sun to Earth. It will take about 300 years for Voyager 2 to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and possibly 30,000 years to fly beyond it. Humanity has gone through an Age of Chaos – the details of this aren’t super clear but don’t really need to be – and transformed into a space-going species. But the means of space travel aren’t controlled by governments; instead, the ships are part of voluntary trade associations. Their main goal is to make money, not protect and defend, mostly because no one has really figured out how to make all-out war work with interstellar distances and timescales.

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Well, I tried. DNF, bailing at 38%, having been buried in another pile of minutia. But also, the MC is kind of Mary Sue sometimes (too perfect), but then compromised by past traumas. I feel like I am watching at a distance, and that adds to the boredom. Additionally, this author uses last names and first names randomly, which makes it harder to follow who's doing what. Exciting times. I have another ‘secret project’ set in mid-seventeenth century Venice, an historical novel… but that’s still mostly secret… Gunny says you saved everyone’s ass … or maybe you’re too wet behind the ears to know what you’re doing.’ Akunje’s grin was huge and infectious. I also have some reservations about the lead character. It’s not her personality or character arc I’m thinking of (both are fine) but the role she plays in the story. I’m not using the term Mary Sue because it’s basically become oversaturated by toxic fandoms, but she seems waaaay too central to everything going on. She’s a skilled pilot, sword fighter, intelligence officer, marine, captain, and bodyguard. That’s just too many things for a midshipper who just joined the crew (illegally) a month before. I understand the need to have the POV character be everywhere so that we know what’s going on, but this just seems like too much. Even for a veteran this would seem a pretty excessive list. Maybe it would have worked better if there had been more than one POV character? One person to handle all the dogfighting and worldbuilding stuff and another to handle counterintelligence and in-person combat? It's just really weird to have a midshipper cargo pilot co-running the ship’s main counterintelligence organization in her spare time in between filling in for the captain and trying to protect the ship AI.Estevar pressed a hand over the nagging wound. There wasn’t so much as a scratch on the leather. The bone plates sewn into the lining would have protected him, had he not been so vain that he’d consented to the duellist’s demand that he fight without it. The world building is really, really good. The way that space travel works and the restrictions on it, and how the human part of the galaxy has evolved based on that, is really well thought out and makes total sense. Space News space history and artifacts articles Messages space history discussion forums Sightings worldwide astronaut appearances Resources selected space history documents

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Immediately after its discovery, telescopes around the world were called into action to measure the object’s trajectory, brightness and color. Combining the images from several large telescopes, a team of astronomers led by Karen Meech of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii found that Oumuamua varies in brightness by a factor of 10 as it spins on its axis every 7.3 hours.Perhaps. But they actually have not even left the solar system, and won’t be leaving anytime soon. They are in what is considered interstellar space, but the boundary of our solar system is beyond the outer edge of the Oort Cloud, a collection of small objects that are still under the influence of the sun’s gravity. Astronomers have long predicted that objects from other solar systems get shot out into space and arrive in our system. Most people can live without booze,’ Marca said. ‘But no one can go an hour without a rationalisation." First off, this is much more military SF than space opera. Sure, it's not technically military, but the tropes are there. There are a lot of training sequences, and we get a lot of day in the life of person aboard a ship sequences. Also, there's a lot of navy jargon, traditions, and interactions (which are really, really well done, BTW. So if you like military SF with realistic interactions, I highly recommend this book.) With their vast cargo holds and a crew that could fill a city, the Greatships are the lifeblood of human occupied space, transporting an unimaginable volume - and value - of goods from City, the greatest human orbital, all the way to Tradepoint at the other, to trade for xenoglas with an unknowable alien species.