The Scarab Mission, James L. Cambias
The Scarab Mission, James L. Cambias
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The Scarab Mission

Author: James L. Cambias

Narrator: Alex Picard

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/18/2024

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

A scavenger and her oddball crew are catapulted into the midst of a strange secret at the heart of a derelict colony ship among the Billion Worlds of the Tenth Millennium in a new novel of explosive SF from James L. Cambias.

Solana Sina is a scarab, salvaging wrecked and abandoned space habitats among the Billion Worlds of the Tenth Millennium. She and an oddball crew—a raven, a cyborg, and a dinosaur—board the derelict colony Safdaghar hoping to score some loot before the colony gets catapulted into the outer reaches of the Solar System. But Solana and the scarabs come face-to-face with a gang of vicious pirates looking for slaves and treasure, and a mysterious stranger intent on preserving an explosive secret. Solana must overcome her own horrifying past to survive and escape before it's too late. But there's an even more dangerous threat lurking in the dark passages and ruined buildings of Safdaghar . . .

About James L. Cambias

James L. Cambias is a writer, game designer, and the cofounder of Zygote Games. He has been nominated for the James Tiptree Jr. Award and the 2001 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He lives in western Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Devilz on April 07, 2025

7.5/10 ★★★★ Questo romanzo mi ha sorpreso positivamente. Non avevo grandi aspettative: è stato pubblicato nel 2023 e non ne avevo mai sentito parlare. Grazie a Urania, che da decenni porta in Italia anche racconti poco conosciuti. Missione Scarabeo è il secondo romanzo ambientato nell'universo creato......more

Goodreads review by Zach on March 01, 2023

This was surprisingly good, and I had difficulty putting it down. I might have to check out more by this author.......more

Goodreads review by Liviu on October 28, 2022

While somewhat earlier in the timeline than The Godel operation, the first novel set in the fascinating Tenth Millenium Billion Worlds universe of the author (hopefully with many novels to come as there is vast scope here), The Scarab Mission is not a prequel or really connected to that one except t......more

Goodreads review by Eric on October 27, 2023

Across the Billion Worlds, a scarab is a salvager of derelict or obsolete habitats. As part of Yanai’s crew, they were the scarab crew with the winning bid to salvage Safdaghar, an abandoned habitat. As the only human on the team, Solana joins Atmin, a corvid, Pera, a dino, and Utsuro, a cyborg, as......more

Goodreads review by SteveRv on April 18, 2023

I’ve enjoyed all of this authors books until this one. Don’t know if it was frame of mind or not but I found this book annoying. The protagonists make ridiculously stupid decisions with the obvious catastrophic results. One in particular I found ludicrous. A protagonist shows up in smart matter mili......more