Klandor Encounter by B Ward Powers with Marti Ward

Irene was born and brought up in the colony on the moon, where her parents were killed in a laboratory explosion. She’s built a reputation for leadership and problem solving around the solar system. She’s the right person for the job when the new modulated integral soliton stream opens up the opportunity for her to command a survey mission to the Alpha Centauri star system.

One planet, designated AC4, looks particularly promising.
The survey is going well for the team, and seems ideal for a colony, when a member of the ship’s crew decides to do some exploration on his own, and conceals some critical discoveries.

Will this kill the colony? Will their reports even be believed? Do they want them to be believed?

This is hard science fiction — that is it tries to be true to all the sciences, for readers who are keen to explore realistic possibilities of future science and technology.

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Category: Science Fiction – First Contact

Alpha Centauri and the planet AC4, now mysteriously known as Klandor, has particular meaning for her. Her aunt was part of the survey team there. In a sense she is still there.

When Lorraine applies to join the proposed colony, she is completely honest and factual in her responses to every question. But she doesn’t make a point of highlighting the connection. She wants to be accepted on her own merits, and she doesn’t like being labeled. And she really hates that the selection committee seems to think that young men are needed, but not young women, and most particularly not a self-opinionated librarian.

But what will be will be!

And a voice from the past has her say.