An early generation starship enters geostationary planetary orbit around a desolate but potentially habitable planet, and begins offloading its colonists bred for this colony. The colonists set loose nanomachines to crumble the basalt covering the planet, then discover a volcano-looking structure that looks too symmetrical to be natural. When the advancing nanomachines reach this pseudovolcano, it collapses; the colonists realize there is an alien species on the planet and first contact has not gone well.
| Author: James E. D. Cline |
| Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Jul 03, 2013 |
| Number of Pages: 258 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1490408894 |
| ISBN-13: 9781490408897 |