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Cauldron

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Cauldron

By: Jack McDevitt
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
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 The year is 2255. The academy that trained the starfarers is long gone and veteran star pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins spends her retirement supporting fund-raising efforts for The Prometheus Foundation, a privately funded organization devoted to deep space exploration.

But when a young physicist unveils an efficient star drive capable of reaching the core of the galaxy, Hutch finds herself back in the deepest reaches of space, and on the verge of discovering the origins of the deadly Omega clouds that continue to haunt her.

©2007 Jack McDevitt (P)2009 Audible, Inc. Adventure Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction Interstellar
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The early volumes in the Academy series were entertaining fun but at this end of the series it’s getting tedious. The unimaginative US-centric world view has become more glaring with the North American Union apparently having absorbed Canada and Mexico without leaving a single cultural trace. There are 2 brief references which suggest that Europe exists, but China, India, Russia, etc apparently do not. Most of the characters are as professional as school kids, and the lack of planning for a year long trip across the galaxy is just exasperating.

Sad decline of an entertaining series

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