The Eye With Which The Universe Behol..., Ian Sales
The Eye With Which The Universe Behol..., Ian Sales
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The Eye With Which The Universe Beholds Itself: Apollo Quartet Book 2

Author: Ian Sales

Narrator: Jeffrey Schmidt

Unabridged: 2 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Novel Audio

Published: 01/31/2017

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

For fifteen years, Earth has had a scientific station on an exoplanet orbiting Gliese 876. It is humanity’s only presence outside the Solar System. But a new and powerful telescope at L5 can detect no evidence of Phaeton Base, even though it should be able to. So the US has sent Brigadier Colonel Bradley Elliott, USAF, to investigate. Twenty years before, Elliott was the first, and to date only, man to land on the Martian surface. What he discovered there gave the US the stars, but it might also be responsible for the disappearance of Phaeton Base…

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rob

...Like Adrift on a Sea of Rains, The Eye With Which the Universe Beholds Itself is a very interesting piece of science fiction. It is very technical, very well researched and contains a lot of interesting detail for people with an interest in the history of space exploration. I found it amazing how......more

The most difficult reviews to write, I find, are of the books that affect you most deeply. After all, it's easy to say why something sucked, and similarly easy to stack up what worked and what didn't when there's plenty of both. But what about a book that hits all the right buttons, and haunts you l......more

Goodreads review by Odo

4.5/5.0......more

Goodreads review by Einar

This is the second book in Ian Sales Appollo Quartet and I enjoyed it as much as the first one. It also plays a lot with alternative history and does it in very interesting ways by exploring if space race continued after the 60's (also there are some changes in the 60's). The story had a good idea a......more

Goodreads review by Eric

This is definitely one of those stories that's more about the journey than the destination. I was wondering the entire time what the point of the story was going to be. It literally took place en route somewhere and in flashbacks. Overall an OK story with a heck of a twist at the end. Felt very pulp......more