Saturn Rendezvous

Astronaut Rae Anne Chavez’s rescue from Saturn orbit by the alien battlecruiser Avenger initiates First Contact between Humans and Shalcerians. The aliens enlist Rae Anne to be their liaison with Earth.

The Shalcerians offer to share their advanced technology to save humanity from the ravages of climate change, but their accompanying demands create rifts across Earth’s geopolitical spectrum. Worldwide protests, in turn, bring out the alien’s darker side.

Rae Anne is torn between her desire for Humans to accept Shalcerian technology and her commitment to preserve humanity’s freedom. Can she devise a course that achieves cooperation with the aliens while avoiding imperial domination by an interstellar empire?