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Mark Thomas is a sailor on a freighter ferrying people and lithium ore between the utopian colony world, Elysium, and Earth. The starship is sabotaged, the crew presumed lost. But there's one survivor. Alone, Mark finds safe harbor in the barely charted star system, Trappist-1. Marooned, he thought that his biggest challenge was how to call for help. When he discovers that something ancient and dangerous is also marooned in the archipelago of a star system, his plight goes from bad to worse.

©2019 John Stilwell (P)2020 John Stilwell Fiction First Contact Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction
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This book gets off to a great start, introduces some great concepts and starts heading along similar themes to ‘the martian’, but then appears to run out of steam.

The ending comes a little too quickly, leaves you a little disappointed

Starts well, Runs out of steam

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