E-book Category: Science Fiction E-book Title: Rat2rap Author: Derek Smith Book Description: An alien entity has been poised at the edge of the galaxy for millennia, watching, waiting. In the 22nd century Michael Orr, a man of the Circle is on Pegasus investigating a vast ring wall. Another wall is discovered on Khesed, a human colony at the other edge of the galaxy. The Entity senses the discovery of its monitors.
Decades later Ward Jenner is summonsed to Grant Carrel, head of a company secretly building a probe to the next galaxy. He is ordered to investigate the discovery of a new wall on Gantt, one of only a handful of successful human colonies. Ward goes to the Cape York space facility where the Deep Space Field Ship MOBIUS waits for him. Orr is now old and contemplating euthanasia after the death of his wife from polygenic cancer. He reluctantly obeys orders to investigate the Gantt wall.
A plan to sabotage the probe fails but Jenner and Orr are both subjected to radiation poisoning. Both recover and uncover Carrel's strange plan to reach a new Earth. At the
