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Arcturus Landing

By: ACE Books

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (ACE Books)

Last Stocked on 5/29/2022

Product Info

Title
Arcturus Landing
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Gordon R. Dickson
Publish Year
1978
Pages
214
Dimensions
4x7x.75"
NKG Part #
2147576116
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

Quarantine...

Ever since Earth's first starship crept out on sub-light drive a hundred years ago and was met by an emissary of the Galactic Federation, man has lived as a prisoner in the solar system. The Federation decreed that unless man could demonstrate his technological maturity and leave the solar system via a faster-than-light drive, he would not leave it at all.

All Earth knows the test that man must pass to win Galactic Citizenship and the freedom of the stars; the FTL drive is every physicist's top priority. But what they cannot know is that they work against both an alien time-limit and human sabotage - and time is running out. Unless John Parent's star-drive project is successful, mankind will remain trapped in the solar system, forever…