Starship Alchemon

De: Christopher Hinz

Narrado por: Greg Lockett

From the the award-winning author of the cult-80s classic Liege-Killer and The Paratwa Saga, comes Starship Alchemon - a deep-space action opera combined with a threat to all humanity.

Nine explorers aboard a powerful AI vessel, Alchemon, are sent to investigate an “anomalous biosignature” on a distant planet. But they soon realize their mission has gone to hell as deadly freakish incidents threaten their lives. Are these events caused by the tormented psychic mysteriously put aboard at the last minute? Has the crew been targeted by a vengeful corporate psychopath? Are they part of some cruel experiment by the ship’s ruthless owners? Or do their troubles originate with the strange alien lifeform retrieved from the planet? A creature that might possess an intelligence beyond human understanding or may perhaps be the spawn of some terrifying supernatural force....

Either way, as their desperation and panic sets in, one thing becomes clear: they’re fighting not only for their own survival, but for the fate of all humanity.

©2019 Christopher Hinz (P)2019 Watkins Publishing

it's no Liege-Killer

Reminiscent of the movie Alien, though missing any stand-out characters like Ash and Ripley. Characters fail to communicate and fail to act rationally. This allows the plot to progress to its long drawn out conclusion rather than be a short story. The narrator is, at best, undistinguished.