Beggars Sky, Wil Mccarthy
Beggars Sky, Wil Mccarthy
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Beggar's Sky

Author: Wil Mccarthy

Narrator: Jasmin Walker, Phil Thron, Cindy Kay

Unabridged: 10 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/16/2024


Synopsis

A wildly original alien contact novel, set against a vivid backdrop of near-Earth corporate intrigue.

Trillionaire Igbal Renz has constructed a starship capable of making the twentyyear journey to Alpha Centauri. So why is he stopping at barely one-tenth that distance, with a cargo of a hundred frozen scientists and diplomats? Rumors abound that Renz Ventures, Inc., has made contact with … something.
And yet, as deadly stealth ships prowl the space lanes and as the corporate space race threatens to devolve into outright warfare, the Four Horsemen of space industry are discovering firsthand that even in a limitless and lawless frontier, no one can ever be truly self-sufficient.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Horhe on March 16, 2024

The book is better than the first one and worse than the second one. My main gripe is that the book is too short for the number of different parallel threads it is weaving. You have at least 5 parallel stories that don't actually intersect and none is exploited to its utmost. The characters are inte......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on April 21, 2024

This was a great installment (probably not the finale) of a plausible hard sf story about solar system colonization efforts. The "four horsemen" (similar to current space entrepreneurs, e.g. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson), different economic and social models for different colonies an......more

Goodreads review by Lawrence on August 28, 2024

Wil McCarthy is just frickin' brilliant. It's that simple. Read this book but first read the two prior books in the series. And then send me a cookie for point them out to you because I've done you a great favor and I like cookies. Thanks, Wil.......more

Goodreads review by Bill on March 16, 2024

The good hard science fiction detective story continues.......more

Goodreads review by Jim on June 21, 2024

A very good continuance of the series. My only frustration was that all the logs of observers got repetitive and kept it from some other action.......more