The Last Star

<h3><strong>Beware god-like aliens bearing gifts</strong></h3><p><br></p><p>Stasis and inorganic self-repair new spacefaring technologies for humankind yet more gifts from its closest extra-terrestrial ally the Iaens. There are it seems no limits to humanity's outward journey.</p><p>  Then Lana Reed Mission Commander of the interstellar colony seeder <em>Drake</em> awakes from her own stasis to discover that all but three of the vessel's other tanks are dark their occupants suffocated screaming yet unheard in their high-tech coffins. But the stasis tanks are not all that is dark. The sensors return no readings from outside. The external vid-feeds show only unending blackness.</p><p>  There are no stars to be seen. No planet song to be heard. No galaxy cry. No echoing radio signals that proclaim life.</p><p>  The <em>Drake</em> and its surviving crew are adrift and alone in a lightless empty universe.</p><p><br></p><p>Cover design and artwork by Alex Storer </p><p><br></p><p>From Terry Grimwood another taste of the human realpolitik alliance with the Iaen begun in <em>Interference.</em></p>