InterstellarNet: New Order

InterstellarNet #2

by Edward M. Lerner

The next chapter in Edward M. Lerner's InterstellarNet saga is a startling adventure of Second Contact, up-front and in-person. Humanity is about to discover that meeting aliens face to face is very different-and a lot more dangerous-than sending and receiving messages. Good fences, said the poet, make good neighbors ... and interstellar distances made very good fences. Or so we thought .... Earth and its interstellar neighbors have been in radio contact for a century and a half. A vigorous commerce in intellectual property has accelerated technical progress for all the species involved. Ideas, riding on radio waves, routinely cross interstellar space-almost like neighbors chatting over the interstellar back fence. But there is a way over, or under, or around, almost any fence. Sooner or later, when we least expect it, the neighbors, friendly or otherwise, are going to pay a call.... InterstellarNet: New Order chronicles the startling events of Second Contact, upfront and personal, as humanity discover that meeting aliens face to face is very different-and a lot more dangerous-than sending and receiving messages.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

316 pages, Paperback

First published September 26, 2010

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

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've been a fan of Lerner's writing for a while now, mostly in the form of short fiction. I enjoy his novels, which give him the scope to expand on characters and develop detailed stories. This is no exception to that. A very well crafted story with distinctive and real characters, and alien races that are distinctly alien.