Voyage to Alpha Centauri

by Michael D. O'Brien

Book Overview

Set eighty years in the future, this novel is about an expedition sent from 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.

Hoyos has signed on as a passenger because he...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621642089
• ISBN13: 9781621642084
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 587 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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.