Manual Interpretation: Trade World Saga

by Ken Pence

Rett didn't expect to be rescued and then attacked by a primitive on a test flight. Andrew didn't expect to save an alien and nearly destroy his planet because of what he learned. Earth didn't get to choose their representative for a planet-wide treaty and then be threatened by an alien confederation.Surely Earth couldn't have had contact with others, from off-planet, before now...but what was this backwater planet doing trying to defend itself. No one understood that the interstellar manuals were goals no culture had ever achieved.

327 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2010

About the author

Ken R Pence, Ph.D. is a professor of engineering at Vanderbilt University. He is a retired captain from the Metro Nashville Police Department where he served 31 years (16 on SWAT) and has taught police and military in the US and Europe (England, Germany, France, and Northern Ireland) in confrontation management skills. He has researched sniper shot location for DARPA, acoustic sensors to protect African elephant herds and inexpensive magnetic levitation. He lives in Nashville with his wife and his large - drooling - black lab (Drools Verne).

ken.pence@vanderbilt.edu

Reviews

[Rayburn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyable read, but gets 3 stars because of bad editing.