"Exciting Space Opera"
In the far distant future, man has learned to travel at FLS
(faster than light speed) but has also terraformed other
planets so that humans could colonize them. One thing
mankind has not found is a sentient species that is their
equal or superior. They have found remnants of other
civilizations that have long since died when man was
crawling out of the caves and they have found a warlike
race of beings that have depleted the resources of their
planet with their many wars. Priscilla Hutchins, Hutch to her friends, is a very good
space pilot in the academy who is nearing burnout and ready
to retire. She is asked, on behalf of the academy, to take
control of the civilian spaceship the City of Memphis and
guide the crew, members of the contact society, into deep
space in hopes of meeting intelligent alien life. They
discover that someone has left a series of stealth
satellites in orbit around space bodies all across the
galaxy. Every time they find one of their trackers, they
beam something new about this universe and those who have
and continue to inhabit it. CHINDI is a space opera with plenty of action and
unexpected developments in almost every sense. Jack
McDevett has created a realistic space-faring universe
mindful of Star Trek that is just waiting to be explored by
Hutch, her fellow adventurers, and readers. There are many
characters in this novel that deserve to have their own
story told. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted June 15, 2002
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