New Earth - Ben Bova

We've found an Earth-like planet, but what secrets does it hold?

In Ben Bova's New Earth, The world is thrilled by the discovery of an Earth-like planet. Advance imaging shows oceans of liquid water and a breathable, oxygen-rich atmosphere. A human exploration team is dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth. The explorers understand they're on a one-way mission. The trip takes eighty years one way, so even if they are able to return to Earth, nearly two hundred years will have passed. Their friends and family will be gone. The explorers are not the best available: they are expendable. Upon landing on the planet they find a group of intelligent creatures who look like humans. Are they native to this world or invaders? Moreover, the scientists begin to realize that the planet cannot be natural. Rather, could New Earth be an artefact?

ISBN: 9780765368072

Pages: 384

Paperback

Tor Fantasy, 2013

Very good condition

B05