Voyage to Alpha Centauri

by Michael D. O'Brien

Book Overview

Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city", is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586178326
• ISBN13: 9781586178321
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 587 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic

Wonderful work by O’Brien. This is the first of his books that I have read. The story is a little slow starting out, but I had no idea what would happen in the mid parts of the book and later and it was fantastic. I will likely re-read down the road.