Slow Train to Arcturus

Sending a spaceship to rendezvous with an enormous vessel made up of a series of globular habitats approaching its star system, the aliens find a savage race calling themselves "humans" who promptly slaughter the exploration team, except for a single survivor who escapes to another habitat, where he finds more friendly humans whose help he requires to get back to his own ship.

Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction, with over three million books in print. He’s the author/creator of theNew York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “Belisarius”alternate Roman history series, and with David Weber collaborated on1633and 1634: The Baltic War. Flint was for many years a labor union activist. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Dave Freer is an ichthyologist turned author who lives on Flinders Island (between mainland Australia and Tasmania) with his wife, four dogs and four cats, and two sons. He has coauthored a range of novels with Eric Flint (Rats, Bats and Vats,The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly, Pyramid Scheme, and Pyramid Power), with Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint (The Shadow of the Lion,This Rough Magic,The Wizard of Karres, Much Fall of Blood and Freer’s solo entry in the series,A Mankind Witch) as well as writing the Dragon’s Ring novels Dragon’s Ring andDog and Dragon.