InterstellarNet: Enigma

by Edward M. Lerner

Humanity once feared that we might be alone in the universe. Now we know better. And we’ve learned there are worse things than being alone …

Joshua Matthews has the opportunity to write the definitive history of InterstellarNet. In that history he plans to focus attention on the improbability that an interstellar community even exists. But somehow, returning home from the party thrown to celebrate his good fortune, he has lost a month of his life. Everyone is certain he’s been on an epic bender. And so, rather than promoted, he is disgraced, unemployed, and unemployable …

Firh Glithwah, leader of the Hunter clan Arblen Ems, schemes to liberate her people from two decades of ignominious internment and isolation on a remote moon of Uranus. And in the process to take vengeance against their human oppressors …

Reporter Corinne Elman and United Planets intel agent Carl Rowland, each in their own way, remains scarred and haunted by the bloody fiasco that was the Hunter invasion of the Solar System …

And none of them suspects that their tribulations have only begun, or that their lives will entwine—across time and space—to confront the InterstellarNet Enigma.

(Note: InterstellarNet: Enigma incorporates "Championship B'tok," which was just nominated for the 2015 Hugo for Best Novelette.)

Genres: Science Fiction

417 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 4, 2015

About the author

I'm a physicist and computer scientist (among other things). After thirty years in industry, working at every level from individual technical contributor to senior vice president, I now write full-time. Mostly I write science fiction and techno-thrillers, now and again throwing in a straight science or technology article.

Reviews

[Carole Duff · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliant work of classic science fiction. Lerner has created a well-realized, future world populated with interesting, complex characters with different problems. Their stories overlap, conflict, then come together to bring the story to a satisfying end. Read and enjoy.

[Wilbur G. Lloyd, Jr. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish

I wish I had only bought and read this one. Oh well I didn't actually read this one since I did read the others that make up this one. So if you have a choice but this one not those other smaller books.