Visitor From The Deep Black: When the supergiant star Antares exploded in the year 2512 AD, it blocked the interstellar pathways to the human colony on Alta. For more than a century, the Altans were cut off from the rest of human space. Then in 2637, the star gate was reopened when a battleship suddenly appeared in Alta's sky.

The Altan Space Navy sent Captain Richard Drake to investigate. What he found was a smashed ship with a dead crew. That was alarming news. For the battered battleship carried enough power to destroy the entire Altan fleet. Whoever had defeated it must be more powerful yet. Were they friend or foe?

 

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1986
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Michael McCollum

Michael McCollum is an American science fiction author. He was born 1946. Michael McCollum is a graduate of Arizona State University, where he majored in aerospace propulsion and minored in nuclear engineering. He is employed at Honeywell in Tempe, Arizona, where he is Chief Engineer in the valve product line. In his career, Michael McCollum has worked on the precursor to the Space Shuttle Main Engine, a nuclear valve to replace the one that failed at Three Mile Island, several guided missiles, the International Space Station, and virtually every aircraft in production today. He was involved in an effort to create a joint venture company…