Starfarers Series by Vonda N. McIntyre

In the first in the Starfarers series of novels, the commander of the Starfarer spacecraft, scientist Victoria MacKenzie, must battle her own commanders on Earth to keep on her mission to find extraterrestrial life. Reissue.

The second book in the Starfarers saga, praised by Ursula K. Le Guin as "the most important series in science fiction". Vonda N. McIntyre is also the author of several nationally bestselling Star Trek titles, including novelizations of three Star Trek movies.

Book Three in the bestselling Starfarers series, reissued to coincide with the debut of Nautilus, also in mass market paperback. Though civilized worlds have shunned them both, humankind and the reclusive, alien squidmouth hope to find friendship in each other.

The death of her cherished friend and guide Nemo, the alien squidmoth, came as a crushing blow to J.D. Sauvage. But J.D. and the first contact crew of the Earth ship Starfarer hope that the enigmatic being's legacy - the starship Nautilus - will lead them closer to communion with alien intelligence. Awaiting them on their journey are the representatives of the Four Worlds and one last chance to join interstellar Civilization, from which Earth has long been barred.But first J.D... moreThe death of her cherished friend and guide Nemo, the alien squidmoth, came as a crushing blow to J.D. Sauvage. But J.D. and the first contact crew of the Earth ship Starfarer hope that the enigmatic being's legacy - the starship Nautilus - will lead them closer to communion with alien intelligence. Awaiting them on their journey are the representatives of the Four Worlds and one last chance to join interstellar Civilization, from which Earth has long been barred.But first J.D. and her fellow wayfarers must convince the aliens that humanity is worthy of Civilization. It is an argument that they will find hard to win, given humanity's violent past. What's worse, they don't have much time to win it. For the cosmic string that can guide the Starfarer home is fast unraveling. Soon the beleagured crew will have to make a decision that will affect all the people of Earth: whether to turn back to Earth while there's still time - or make one last desperate effort to win over their implacable alien hosts. less

An Omnibus version of the four novels : Starfarers, Transition, Metaphase and NautilusThe starship Starfarer is poised for our first voyage to another star system. The Alien Contact Team — physicist Victoria Fraser MacKenzie, geneticist Stephen Thomas Gregory, geographer Satoshi Lono, and alien contact specialist J.D. Sauvage — and the rest of the faculty and staff prepare for humanity’s most ambitious exploratory expedition.But the world has changed... moreAn Omnibus version of the four novels : Starfarers, Transition, Metaphase and NautilusThe starship Starfarer is poised for our first voyage to another star system. The Alien Contact Team — physicist Victoria Fraser MacKenzie, geneticist Stephen Thomas Gregory, geographer Satoshi Lono, and alien contact specialist J.D. Sauvage — and the rest of the faculty and staff prepare for humanity’s most ambitious exploratory expedition.But the world has changed. A new regime orders the vessel to be abandoned. It will be turned into an instrument of war.What do the Starfarers do?They do what any red-blooded Alien Contact Team would do.They steal the starship. less