The Rings of Time

• Book ID: 126372914
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 209 KB
• Category: Standards

✦ Synopsis

2020 The

, under the command of Colonel Shaun Christopher, sets off on humanity’s first manned mission to Saturn. But the unexpected presence of a stowaway complicates the mission — as does a startling encounter with an alien probe. But when Colonel Christopher attempts to capture the probe, he suddenly finds himself transported across time and space to a future era of space exploration…

Stardate 7103.4 The

U.S.S. Enterprise

responds to an urgent distress call from a mining colony orbiting Klondike VI, a ringed gas giant not unlike Saturn. For unknown reasons, the planet’s rings are coming apart, threatening the safety of the colony and its inhabitants. Searching for a way to avert the disaster, Captain James T. Kirk and his crew investigate a mysterious alien probe that has just entered the system. But when the probe is beamed aboard, Kirk abruptly finds himself floating in space above Saturn, wearing an old-fashioned NASA spacesuit, with the

Enterprise

nowhere in sight…

Two missions. Two crews. And a time-twisting crisis that spans the centuries…

✦ Subjects

Космическая фантастика