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The Armageddon Engine by James Swallow

The Armageddon Engine cover

Published by Anderson Entertainment (more)

Hardcover 978-1914522833 13 September 2024 from Anderson Entertainment
1 October 2024 widely
136pp, 152 x 229mm
Kindle ebook (Amazon) 978-1914522918 15 October 2024 2.7Mb
Audiobook (Big Finish) 978-1-91452-285-7 September 2024 222 minutes

Synopses from inner flap

Adrift in deep space, Commander John Koenig and the people of Moonbase Alpha face an uncertain fate when a planet-killing alien weapon at the heart of a sinister cloud diverts their lost Moon on to a fatal trajectory.

As each moment brings the Moon closer to total obliteration, Koenig leads a desperate mission into the unknown to save all life on Alpha. Does hope lie among a rag-tag colony of refugees hiding in the shadow of devastation? Or can the Alphans find a path into the heart of the war machine and end its destructive rampage? With time running out, the answer will mean the difference between survival… or annihilation.

The story is inspired by the the original Star Trek second series episode "The Doomsday Machine" from 1967. There are brief cameos of a Kaldorian (Earthbound) and Sidon (Voyager's Return) and Zython (from the Mattel figures), while the chapter titles include references to other science fiction.

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