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Arachne's Exile (The Arachne) Paperback – January 2, 2021

by Christopher L Bennett (Author)
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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What a Tangled Web...

When the colony starship Arachne unwittingly destroyed a deep-space habitat of the Chirrn, her crew committed themselves to a lifetime of penance to repay their debt. But a brutal act of vengeance has now forced them into exile in a distant part of the galaxy.

Drawn into a cosmic conspiracy spanning millennia, the colonists learn that the Chirrn's ancient choices have exacted a terrible toll on human history.

Now, their only way to win true freedom may be to carry out a perilous theft aboard an extraordinary megastructure orbiting a neutron star.

Will Arachne and her crew pull off the heist of the millennium? Or are they being manipulated into committing a far more awful crime... one for which all humanity could pay the price?


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  1. Book 2 of 2
    The Arachne
  2. Print length
    238 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Espec Books
  5. Publication date
    January 2, 2021
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 0.54 x 9 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1949691152
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1949691153
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Christopher L. Bennett is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, with a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in History from the University of Cincinnati. A fan of science and science fiction since age five, he has spent the past two decades selling original short fiction to magazines such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact (home of his Hub series of comedy adventures), BuzzyMag, and Galaxy's Edge. Since 2003, he has been one of Pocket Books' most prolific and popular authors of Star Trek tie-in fiction, including the epic Next Generation prequel The Buried Age, the Enterprise -- Rise of the Federation series, and the Original Series prequel The Captain's Oath. He has also written two Marvel Comics novels, X-Men: Watchers on the Walls and Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder. His original novel Only Superhuman, perhaps the first hard science fiction superhero novel, was voted Library Journal's SF/Fantasy Debut of the Month for October 2012. He has three collections reprinting his original short fiction, Among the Wild Cybers: Tales Beyond the Superhuman from eSpec Books (containing an original Only Superhuman prequel novelette) and Hub Space: Tales from the Greater Galaxy and Crimes of the Hub from Mystique Press.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Espec Books (January 2, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 238 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1949691152
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1949691153
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.54 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Christopher L. Bennett is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, with a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in History from the University of Cincinnati. A fan of science and science fiction since age five, he has spent the past two decades selling original short fiction to magazines such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact (home of his "Hub" series of comedy adventures), BuzzyMag, and Galaxy's Edge. Since 2003, he has been one of Pocket Books' most prolific and popular authors of Star Trek tie-in fiction, including the epic Next Generation prequel The Buried Age, the Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations series, and the Star Trek: Enterprise -- Rise of the Federation series. He has also written two Marvel Comics novels, X-Men: Watchers on the Walls and Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder. His original novel Only Superhuman, perhaps the first hard science fiction superhero novel, was voted Library Journal's SF/Fantasy Debut of the Month for October 2012. Other tales in the same universe can be found in Among the Wild Cybers and the upcoming Arachne's Crime, both from eSpec Books. His Hub stories are available in two collections from Mystique Press.

Christopher's homepage, fiction annotations, and blog can be found at christopherlbennett.wordpress.com. His Patreon page with original fiction and reviews is at https://www.patreon.com/christopherlbennett, and his Facebook author page is at www.facebook.com/ChristopherLBennettAuthor.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not a Stand Alone Book. Requires Plot Development in First Book, Arachne's Crime, for Context.
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2021
Arachne’s Exile is a follow up to Arachne’s Crime, a two-book series by L. Bennett Christopher. In this book, the crew of Arachne, an A.I. driven explorations ship, is being mentored by aliens to prepare them for inclusion into a federation of disparate alien representatives. The humans are not yet fully trusted as they had inadvertently caused a lethal catastrophe to the aliens who are now in charge of their mentorship. It is this harmful occurrence, often referred to in Arachne’s Exile but never disclosed, that made me realize that Arachne’s Exile is not a stand-alone book. That lack of plot development resulted in my not being able to fully appreciate the significance of the human-alien dialog that took place in the first two chapters. The book began to take on its direction after that.

The human crew is divided with one faction feeling the need to atone for the catastrophe and the other being angry for the retaliation that was taken out on them by some of the aliens who were harmed. With so few humans in the mentored group, this division makes acclimation of the humans into the alien association difficult. Alien historical culture and political contexture is non-disclosure by their mentors leading to misunderstanding and suspicion on the part of the crew. This results in them falling into an alliance with an alien terrorist faction, which leads to the near-total destruction of the power source behind the alien alliance group’s strength. Realizing what they’ve done, the humans effectively stop their most vengeful crewmates from completing their murderous efforts and take further action to bring the terrorist’s leader to judgment.

While the book was a good read once I got beyond the need for background events, I can only recommend a commitment to read it with the provision that you read Arachne’s Crime first. I should have stopped reading this book and gone to the first book to read it. Combined, the two books should make a great story.
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