Altered Starscape, Ian Douglas
Altered Starscape, Ian Douglas
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Altered Starscape
Andromedan Dark: Book One

Author: Ian Douglas

Narrator: Nick Sullivan

Unabridged: 12 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/25/2016


Synopsis

Galaxies collide in a thrilling new series from bestselling author Ian Douglas, as the last humans in the universe face off against a new threat2162. Thirty-eight years after first contact, Lord Commander Grayson St. Clair leads the Tellus Ad Astra on an unprecedented expedition to the Galactic Core, carrying more than a million scientists, diplomats, soldiers, and AIs. Despite his reservations about their alien hosts, St. Clair is deeply committed to his people—especially after they're sucked into a black hole and spat out four billion years in the future.Civilizations have risen and fallen. The Andromeda Galaxy is drifting into the Milky Way. And Earth is most certainly a distant memory. All that matters now is survival. But as the ship's Marines search for allies amid ancient ruins and strange new planetary structures, St. Clair must wrap his mind around an enemy capable of harnessing a weapon of incomprehensible power: space itself.

About Ian Douglas

Ian Douglas is one of the many pseudonyms for writer William H. Keith, the New York Times bestselling author of the popular military science fiction series The Heritage Trilogy, The Legacy Trilogy, The Inheritance Trilogy, The Star Corpsman series, The Andromedan Dark series, and The Star Carrier series. A former naval corpsman, he lives in Pennsylvania.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on January 11, 2018

When galaxies collide Full review, first posted on Fantasy Literature: Altered Starscape has its jumping off point (literally) in the year 2162. Humanity has been in contact with other galactic races for thirty-eight years, and still feels itself at a disadvantage in comparison with the many more adva......more

Goodreads review by Little on December 01, 2022

Nice SiFi book. If you have read any of the writer's other series then you will enjoy this one as well. Several themes of science and tech that seem to run through his books are well done. Recommended......more

Goodreads review by Ethan on November 27, 2016

See also the blog version of this review: [URL not allowed] I have mixed feelings about this one. While there are a lot of cool ideas, none of them came together in a satisfactory way for me. First, the good bits. I picked this up because the basic premise sounded cool: a group......more

Goodreads review by Matt on December 04, 2024

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. At times it did feel like Ian Douglas just looked at the Wikipedia for theoretical megastructures, and was like "Yes. All of the above.", but I'm okay with that because I'm an absolute sucker for megastructures. I really enjoyed the alienness of the aliens, and t......more

Goodreads review by Red7paulbrennan on September 08, 2019

This book just felt like it was trying to put every remotely interesting science fiction idea into the story as possible and give it a bit of explanation then move on to the next thing. If you are new to science fiction mega structures I would recommend but otherwise skip it.......more