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    Wildeblood's Empire: Daedalus Mission, Book Three
    Wildeblood's Empire: Daedalus Mission, Book Three
    Wildeblood's Empire: Daedalus Mission, Book Three
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    Wildeblood's Empire: Daedalus Mission, Book Three

    By Brian Stableford

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    hey call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which a declining Earth has sent to re-establish contact with its long-lost colonies. Biologist Alex Alexander, together with his staff, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that they encounter far from home. On the world called Wildeblood, named for the ecologist/Emperor who founded it, the settlers' descendants harbor a terrible secret--a secret that Alex must uncover, if the colony is to survive. But he must also make contact with the world OTHER intelligent species, something that will take time--time that the colonists are determined not to give him. And even if can solve the biological problem, what about the diplomatic one? The Daedalus Mission, Book Three.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateAug 7, 2017
    ISBN9781434449672
    Wildeblood's Empire: Daedalus Mission, Book Three
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    Brian Stableford

    Brian Stableford lives in Reading, England.

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    • 4/5
      Nice conceit upon which to hang a series of whodoneit novels. Worthwhile reading.
    • 2/5
      The Daedalus travels to colonies that Earth abandoned for quite a while to see if future colonies are worth trying. If a colony is collapsing, as a previous mission found many had, can it be saved? If it is succeeding, is it true success that is replicable? In the third landing, the Daedalus finds a colony that has succeeded by having its founder, a biologist, set up a rigid society with everyone is addicted to a secretly produced drug. The puzzles are: where does the drug come from, what did the founder have in mind doing things this way, and what does that sequence of numbers he left behind mean?The author's heart is clearly in the puzzle-solving. Pages of exposition as the hero tries to work out the answer are interrupted periodically with some random running around to supply the needed action. With a really good puzzle, this can be OK but this one isn't really that big a surprise. To me, the most interesting aspect of this third book is the maturing debate between the scientist hero and the administrative leader of the mission, on the political realities of future colonization. It's too small an element to lift my rating but worthy of note.Also worthy of note is a brief reference to ideas being viral. Now if only Stableford had used the word "meme."

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