The Gentle Giants of Ganymede

This is an excellent sequel to Hogan's first novel, Inherit the Stars. The Ganymedeans return (surprise!), and Hogan tells an excellent first contact story with considerable flair, many detailed scientific speculations, an early AI warning, as well as some good space opera adventure. There's not muc......more

This book takes the series in a different direction from what I expected. As always, with Hogan one gets more ideas than characters. (The author reminds me of Arthur C. Clark in that respect). Here the ideas involve around more in depth understanding on the nature of evolution, time dilution, and pl......more

*chef’s kiss* 💋 exactly what I was looking for and just as good as the first. This book is full of science-y info dumps, which I am assuming u will like since u likely made it thru the first book. If u liked that one, just get both this one and book 3- u wont be disappointed. The second installment d......more

Similar to the first book in the series this is another story where there isn't much of a conflict or antagonist. It's just people that are fairly comfortable in their lives trying to solve mysteries involving humanity's evolutionary history and dealing with a first contact with a peaceful alien rac......more

Continuing the story began in "Inherit the Stars," this is about the discovery of a corpse on the moon, dressed in a red spacesut, that happens to be 50,000 years old. Further research on the corpse, and the items found with it, and further discoveries elsewhere on the Moon, lead to the conclusion t......more