Burster — Michael F. Capobianco

HOMELESS AMONG THE STARS

In a last-ditch effort to reunite the world, the multinational starship Asia was launched fourteen years ago on a journey through the near solar systems. Its mission: to search out and colonize Earth-type planets that could support human life. Yet, as the crew approaches their first destination in the Epsilon Indi system, an unexplained burst of radiation apparently emanating from Earth wipes out all contact with the mother planet.

Fearing-the worst but unwilling to jeopardize essential crew members, the captain chooses the brilliant but restless young Peter Zolotin to undertake the hazardous voyage back to Earth. With the aid of an advanced artificial intelligence--an AI--Zolotin embarks on a mind-bending journey to discover the truth about Earth's fate. And the message he carries back to the orphaned crew will change the course of humanity forever.