Narrator Gregory Linington
Probability Trilogy Series Book 02

Human beings (aka Terrans) have a brighter future in this fairly standard space
adventure than they did in Kress's Probability Moon (2000), which introduced the
enemy Fallers, friendly Worlders and space tunnels left behind by a long-lost
alien race. In the previous book, Worlders pushed humans off their planet because
they didn't "share reality." Now the Terrans come back to try to retrieve the
Worlders' "artifact," a machine that generates a probability field and holds the
key to human survival in the fight against the Fallers. The action moves from
colonies on the moon and Mars, to a military space ship, the Alan B. Shepard,
to World, a planet at a great distance from Earth that's inhabited by a harmonious
alien race of total empaths. The author grounds her morally complex plot in the
physics of probability.


As usual with Kress, her eccentric characters add depth. Major Lyle Kaufman,
a military leader who dislikes leadership; Tom Capelo, a brilliant, antisocial
physicist still grieving for a dead wife; and Ann Sikorski, a xenobiologist who
questions their right to take the artifact, all struggle with their roles.
In addition, female Worlder Enli must work with humans and with her own kind
to create a compromise. Readers will start this novel because of Kress's
reputation, will read it for the adventure and will like it for the characters
and the science.

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