Ex Machina - Bennett, Christopher L.

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Résumé :
Picking up where Star Trek: The Motion Picture left off, the reunited crew of the Enterprise comes to the aid of a civilization whose god is dead. Their survival is now endangered by actions taken by Kirk years ago. Original.

Biographie:
Christopher L. Bennett is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, with bachelors degrees in physics and history from the University of Cincinnati. He has written such critically acclaimedStar Treknovels asExMachina, The Buried Age,the Titan novelsOrions HoundsandOver a Torrent Sea, the two Department of Temporal Investigations novelsWatching the ClockandForgotten History, and the Enterprise novelsRise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures,Tower of Babel,Uncertain Logic, andLive By the Code, as well as shorter works including stories in the anniversary anthologiesConstellations, The Skys the Limit, ProphecyandChange, andDistant Shores. Beyond Star Trek, he has penned the novelsX-Men: Watchers on the WallsandSpider-Man: Drowned in Thunder. His original work includes the hard science fiction superhero novelOnly Superhuman, as well as several novelettes inAnalogand other science fiction magazines....

Sommaire:
An intense missing tale from the beginning of the Star Trek movie era, when the crew of the USS Enterprise was first reunited and confronting issues of both nature of God and artificial intelligence. Following the events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the reunited crew of the USS Enterprise revisits a loose end from their earlier adventures: the resettlement of refugee colonists from a destroyed planet, whose lives have depended so long on the godlike artificial intelligence that guided them through space, they ability to survive without it is now in doubt. At the same time, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, back together now after almost three years, must relearn how to work together in a story that examines this iconic relationship as never before....