Spindown
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*** A B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree ***
Cyrus Konami is the Chief Inspector on the first colony vessel, Aotea, to leave Earth's solar system. Deep within the machinery of the ship, a suspicious death upends the routine on board. Mysterious signals from deep space add to the confusion, along with a series of debilitating malfunctions.
Cy and Lieutenant Beatriz Mattoso dig into the deceased crewman's background. The first signs point to a tragic accident. Ship scuttlebutt points to the deep-space signals -- is a mysterious force trying to prevent humanity from spreading into deep space? Or are the radical pacifists and cultural separatists who funded the journey somehow involved?
With an increasingly uncooperative populace, a shocking assassination attempt, and a spaceship falling apart around them, Cy and Bea must unravel secrets that threaten the lives of thousands before it's too late...
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Wonderful SciFi plus crime thriller
“He didn’t hate these people, and this ship, and this culture, frustrating as they all were, he decided. It’s not hate, he told himself, just boredom. And perhaps just a slower adjustment than he thought it would be.…I’m not a hateful man, he thought to himself. He even managed to smile and nod to one of the few constables who had demonstrated some aptitude and ingenuity in the drill.…Just bored. And tired”
Chief Inspector Cyrus Konami and a crew member Lieutenant Beatriz Mattoso begin the process of exploring the accidental death of a crew member onboard the Aotea, the first “colony ship” to leave the Solar System. However, the question is,was it really an accident. After all, the Aotea and it’s crew and colonists left all that behind. The Aotea is supposed to give humankind a new chance to start without all the hate and bigotry that defines earth. Can they make it the utopia they hope? Maybe a better question is will they make it at all.
I have been a SciFi “nerd” for most of my 60+ years on earth. SciFi can often become formulaic, but I didn’t find that in this story because Andy Crawford has taken the better aspects of science fiction and fused them with a bang up crime thriller that contains political overtones that kept me turning pages and wanting it to last longer. I highly recommend this book. 5/5
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