Brad Lansky and the Anti-Starc

J.D. Venne

Tracks

The Ambistar Collective Problem: Brad and Alex Arrive in the Torvus Iubar System At the Invitation of Giri Null.

Planet Calidus: They Respond to the Plea of a Captured Teslalite and Soon Find Themselves On a Hot Planet, In a Sticky Situation.

The Space Desert: The Teslalite Takes Them to An Unknown Subway Exit. A Gas Giant With A Nasty Surprise Awaits Them At the Other End.

Bleeding Edge (Aleph One Tries to Convey The Enormity and Multi-Faceted Nature of Their Discovery.)

Mamai Soliton (For Their Return Mission, Gaia Sends Them a Warship And Its Most Expensive A.I.) [Why Then Does Alex Not Feel At All Grateful?]

The Antibeings: Mamai Makes Contact With Intelligent Beings, But This Happy Event Is Overshadowed By the Information They Provide.

Costing Run (They Watch As a Gaia Freighter Explodes On the Gas Giant. Mystified, They Spot Gaia’S Largest Freighter Emerge From Behind the Sun.)

The Artifact: Hoping for Some Badly-Needed Answers, They Make Contact With The Artifact. How Is This Gas Giant Connected With the Grefim and the Fate of the Ambistar Collective?

Back to the Antiwall (Pinned Down By Two Grefim, They Finally Understand the Full Implications of Unfolding Events.)

Message From Tess (Saved Again – Brad and Alex Feel Humbled By This Most Mysterious of Life Forms.)

Solefuge: All Scramble to Divert the Costing Run, But Why Has Solefuge Called Them to the Simdeck?

Opposite Attraction: Brad Examines Solefuge's Motives) [Does the End Justify the Means?]

Contact (A Face-To-Face Meeting With A Being Made of Antimatter Is Dangerous, But Well Worth the Risk for Brad.)