Omega
by Jack McDevitt
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Author: Jack McDevittEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-10-26
ISBN: 0441012108
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Ace
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Book Review: This series draws to a final showdown with the belligerent Omega Clouds
Summary: 5 Stars
Nearly a decade after her exploits in *Chindi*, Prscilla "Hutch" Hutchins has hung up her wings and settled down into an administrative position with the Academy of Space and Technology. Like most of humanity, she is only worried about the impending doom from the Omega Clouds - which travel the galaxy destroying anything the seems to be created by sentient life - when she is thinking about it; but, since that confrontation is 900 years away, it seems remote and something for tomorrow.
But, everything changes when a routine science expedition observes an Omega Cloud change course and head for an unexplored star system. They soon discover a world populated by a pre-technological civilization. Suddenly, the threat of the Omega Clouds become an obsession with Earth as everyone is moved by the plight of the cute and lovable humanoid creatures (a reaction not unlike people's reaction to cute and endangered species on Earth like the panda or koala). Hutch finds herself at the center of it all as she struggles to summon the spacefaring resources and technology of Earth in a desperate effort to save the unsuspecting planet from destruction - all while trying to not interfere with the developing species or reveal their presence.
*Omega* is all action from start to finish, but of course it is also an intelligent science fiction story as all McDevitt books are. A superb ending to this chapter of the "Chronicles of Hutch".
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A civilization-destroying omega cloud has switched direction, heading straight for a previously unexplored planetary system--and its alien society. And suddenly, a handful of brave humans must try to save an entire world--without revealing their existence.Literature & Fiction Books
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