As the U. S. S. Titan ventures beyond the outermost reaches of known space, the telepaths in her crew--including Diplomatic Officer Donna Troi--are overwhelmed by an alien cry of distress, leading the ship to the scene of a shocking act of carnage: a civilazation of insterstellar "whalers" preying upon and exploiting a familiar species of sentient spacebource giants.
Appalled but reluctant to rush to judgement, Captain William Riker and his crew in investigate, discovering a cosmic spawning ground in a region of active star formation--the exosystem for a bewildering array of diverse but similarly vast life-forms. While attempting to negotiate an end to the victimizeation of these creatures, Riker's crew inadvertently grants them the means to defeat their hunters' purpose...only to learn that things are not exactly as they seem.
About the AuthorBennett, Christopher L.: - Christopher L. Bennett is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, with bachelor's degrees in physics and history from the University of Cincinnati. He has written such critically acclaimed
Star Trek novels as
Ex Machina, The Buried Age, the Titan novels
Orion's Hounds and
Over a Torrent Sea, the two Department of Temporal Investigations novels
Watching the Clock and
Forgotten History, and the Enterprise novels
Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures,
Tower of Babel,
Uncertain Logic, and
Live By the Code, as well as shorter works including stories in the anniversary anthologies
Constellations, The Sky's the Limit, Prophecy and
Change, and
Distant Shores. Beyond Star Trek, he has penned the novels
X Men: Watchers on the Walls and
Spider Man: Drowned in Thunder. His original work includes the hard science fiction superhero novel
Only Superhuman, as well as several novelettes in
Analog and other science fiction magazines.