Reunion on Alpha Reticuli II
A novella. Cover art by Tomislav Tikulin.
His quest to find his wife and daughter takes Matt Hendrick to the world of Tourmaline, the luxury resort planet to which millions of tourists from across the Expansion Telemass every month. There Hendrick comes across a telepath who offers to help him trace his wife, but all is not as it seems.
And soon it will be Starship Day — when an ancient spaceship will arrive in orbit at the end of a voyage lasting five hundred years, bringing much more than Matt expects. And when an alien Effectuator claims he can bring Matt's dead daughter back to life, Matt finds himself caught on the horns of a dilemma.
Reunion on Alpha Reticuli II is the third instalment of Eric Brown's thrilling and exotic Telemass Quartet.
Eric Brown
Eric Brown began writing when he was fifteen years and sold his first short story to Interzone in 1986. He has won the British Science Fiction Award twice for his short stories, and his novel Helix Wars was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick award. He has published sixty books, and his latest include the crime novel Murder Take Three, and the short story collection Microcosms, with Tony Ballantyne. He has also written a dozen books for children and over a hundred and forty short stories. He writes a regular science fiction review column for the Guardian newspaper and lives in Cockburnspath, Scotland.
The Telemass Quartet
The Telemass Quartet consists of five primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
