Second Star, Dana Stabenow
Second Star, Dana Stabenow
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Second Star

Author: Dana Stabenow

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 7 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 11/01/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

When the Betelgeuse message was detected, it changed a lot of things on Earth. We began to look seriously outward, not with the heady optimism of the early days, but with deliberate calculation. We knew that Someone was out there, and that eventually, they’d be coming. If Earth didn’t occupy the High Frontier, it could be ours to lose.Esther “Star” Svensdotter’s job is overseeing the completion of the American Alliance’s first O’Neill cylinder — a massive space hab capable of supporting thousands of colonists. It’s just weeks away from commissioning, and she’ll be damned if Luddite terrorists, squabbling bureaucrats, military takeovers or rogue AIs will stand in the way. Frontier justice on Ellfive sometimes involves an airlock — you don’t want to be on the wrong side of justice. Or the wrong side of Star Svensdotter.The first in Dana Stabenow’s Star Svensdotter trilogy, Second Star is a tale of first contact, declarations of independence, and new frontiers.

About Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow is the author of the bestselling Kate Shugak series, which includes Midnight Come Again, The Singing of the Dead, and Bad Blood, and the Liam Campbell series. She has won an Edgar Award and a Nero Award for books in the Kate Shugak series, and in 2007 she was named Alaska Artist of the Year in the Governor's Awards for the Arts and Humanities.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dava on November 29, 2011

As usual in a Dana Stabenow story, the characters make the story enjoyable in Second Star. There were a couple of things that bugged me a bit: the characters had to work too hard to explain what things were for and who people are. I hate when characters say things to each other so that the reader kn......more

Goodreads review by Kogiopsis on January 24, 2015

I gave this book a shot on the word of an Alaskan friend who's a fan of Stabenow's work - though I think she likes the mysteries, not this stuff. Maybe those are better. I certainly hope so, because this book just wavers back and forth between 'mediocre' and 'terrible', and even for a first novel it......more

Goodreads review by L on June 08, 2018

I love first contact stories. And this one is grand! I never knew that Stabenow wrote any sci fi. Apparently she didn't write much of it and this one is introduced with apologies re errors of science, which would matter more if I had been in the mood for hard-science sci-fi than I was. I read for ch......more

Goodreads review by Roger on February 25, 2024

Almost a page-turner, at least a 4-star book for fans of space fiction, and 5-star for me because I'm a Heinlein fan and Stabenow obviously is too, with dozens of Heinlein references & homages to some of his works, especially The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.......more

Goodreads review by J.L. on May 17, 2019

Second Star (Star Svensdotter Book 1) By Dana Stabenow Perhaps the title of this comes from everyone's favorite quote from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie. "Second to the right," said Peter, "and then straight on till morning." And then; perhaps making use of the often added Star. "Second Star to the righ......more

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