Mission to Methone

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ORIGINAL SF TRADE PAPERBACK. Humanity is not alone in the universe. Across the galaxy, a war rages between advanced alien races. And its about to be brought to our doorstep.

The year is 2065 and an accidental encounter in space leads to the discovery that we are not alone in the universeand that our continued existence as a species may be in jeopardy.

Chris Holt, working in his office at the Space Resources Corporation, discovers that one of the asteroids he is surveying for mining is actually not an asteroid at allbut a derelict spaceship. The word gets out and soon the world's powers are competing to explore and claim for themselves the secrets that it holds.

What they don't know is that across the galaxy, a war has been underway for millennia. A war between alien civilizations that have very different ideas about what should be done about emerging spacefaring civilizations like our own. The artificial intelligence resident in the derelict Holt discovered has been in our solar system since before the dawn of human civilization, watching, waiting and keeping quiet lest the interstellar war return and wipe out the sentient race that now resides therehumanity.

And that war might soon be again coming to our front door. The truth can only be discovered on Methone, a tiny, egg-shaped moon of the planet Saturn.Who will get there first And will it be in time

AboutMission to Methone:

"The spirit of Arthur C. Clarke and his contemporaries is alive and well in Johnsons old-fashioned first-contact novel, set in 2068....includes plenty of realistic detail and puts fun new spins on familiar alien concepts.... Theres a great deal here for fans of early hard SF."Publishers Weekly

"With equal parts science fiction and international intrigue....an exciting, fast-paced read that you will not want to put down."Booklist

AboutRescue Modeby Ben Bova and Les Johnson:
"... a suspenseful and compelling narrative of the first human spaceflight to Mars."Booklist

Author Bio

Les Johnson is a futurist, author, and NASA technologist. Publishers Weekly noted that The spirit of Arthur C. Clarke and his contemporaries is alive and well . . . when describing his novel, Mission to Methone. His most recent novels, The Spacetime War and Saving Proxima (with coauthorTravis S. Taylor), were published in 2021.In his day job at NASA, Les is the Chief Technologist at the Marshall Space Flight Center where he leads the centers development of next-generation space technologiesincluding solar sails, which he believes will eventually take us to the stars.