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    Judith Roycroft At last the wait is over. 'Galaxy Rising' by John Otto follows on from his two previous books, 'Footprints in the Dust' and 'Broken Planet and like the first two novels has fascinating concepts with science fact mingling with fiction throughout the book. 180,000 light years from Earth there can be no return for a battlescarred Argo and its crew of Earth-born humans and their alien brothers. A pact made with strange entities at the edge of a powerful gravity field saves the starship and crew from oblivion - but there is a cost. A symbiotic blending with the entities takes place and the crew are no longer human. An alien presence dwells in their brains - a presence that the crew fear cannot be controlled. The pact stipulates that Argo must seek out and destroy the Rabbide - a powerful military force that is wiping out technologically advanced nations across the Large Magellanic Cloud - a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way galaxy. Argo's crew are informed of nature's blunder. Chromosome decay of the Rabbide has failed. It is then that Argo's commander recalls that on Earth the human male's Y chromosome was in sharp retreat and wonders if there could be a connection. Years on an Earth-like planet is discovered. Unlikely romances are forged but seem destined to fail when the awful truth of the planet is revealed. The entities that have labelled themselves guardian angels are resolute in their demand that the pact be honoured. Argo's crew are horrified and there seems to be no way that Argo's commander can temper the 'angels' demands. This fast paced tale is full of surprises. Pitted against a powerful terminator species - an unstable star and a volcanically active world, can Argo's crew prevail? 'Galaxy Rising'...big book...bold imagination. Oh, yes...don't forget to breathe. by Judith Roycroft

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