Surviving crash-landings and monsters and island-eaters was only the beginning!
The Kimei family and a second group of castaways, led by Sergeant Campbell, had finally joined forces after both had been forced to land on the bizarre planet Lincoln, whose continents were huge floating coral colonies, inhabited by even stranger lifeforms. They had survived crash-landings and venom-filled bites and disease, their own despair, and even the destructionтАФand consumption!тАФof one of their floating islands, and had learned to live, even prosper, in their strange new home.
Far away, Lieutenat Susan Fisher slowly pieces together the mystery of what happened to the starship┬аOutward Initiative┬а.┬а.┬а.┬аand begins to believe thatтАФjust possiblyтАФsome of the survivors might have escaped to a mysteriously unsuspected star system.
But even her preparations and the resourcefulness of the castaways may not be enough┬а.┬а.┬а.┬аfor Lincoln has far worse in store.
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Praise for previous books in this series:
тАЬ[F]ast-paced sci-fi espionage thriller . . . light in tone and hard on science . . .тАЭ тАФPublishers Weekly┬аon┬аBoundary
тАЬThe whole crew from Flint and Spoor's Boundary are back. . . . Tensions run high throughout the Ceres mission . . . a fine choice for any collection.тАЭ тАФPublishers Weekly┬аon┬аThreshold
тАЬ[P]aleontology, engineering, and space flight, puzzles in linguistics, biology, physics, and evolution further the story, as well as wacky humor, academic rivalries, and even some sweet romances.тАЭ тАФSchool Library Journal┬аon┬аBoundary
Eric Flint┬аis a modern master of alternate history fiction, with three million books in print. HeтАЩs the author/creator of the multiple┬аNew York Times┬аbest-selling Ring of Fire series starting with first novel┬а1632. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the тАЬBelisariusтАЭ alternate Roman history series, and with David Weber collaborated on┬а1633┬аand┬а1634: The Baltic War┬аand two novels in Webers Honorverse series. Flint was for many years a labor union activist. He lives near Chicago, Illinois.
Ryk E. Spoor, while earning his master's degree in information science at the University of Pittsburgh, became a playtesting consultant and writer for the Wizards of the Coast, then merely a startup, now the leading publisher of role-playing games, Magic: The Gathering┬о, and related gaming materials. He now lives in East Greenbush, New York, working as Research and Development Coordinator for International Electronic Machines, and spends his non-writer time with his wife Kathleen, two sons, two daughters, a poodle, and a lot of chickens. Ryk is the coauthor with Eric Flint of five books in the Boundary science fiction series including┬аBoundary, Threshold, Portal, Castaway Planet┬аand┬аCastaway Odyssey. His solo novels for Baen include┬аGrand Central Arena, Spheres of Influence, Paradigms Lost, and┬аChallenges of the Deep, as well as epic fantasies┬аPhoenix Rising, Phoenix in Shadow, and┬аPhoenix Ascendant.