Some odd muscle pain in my shoulder yesterday, but i made it to work. This book was on the “please take” table, so when i finally had to go home, I took it with me. I’d read “Inheritor” last year (B46), picked up at the used book store in the RDU airport. I realized I would be getting the back story here. The book cover claims, “A novel of First Contact,” so when it opened with the Phoenix crew overshooting the destination, i thought, “Ah, really deep back story,” then the novel jumps ahead to the landing on the planet. “Ah, yay, back story on — maybe the war,” but then it jumps ahead to … the same character in “Inheritor.”

A bit of a surprise, but enjoyable. Certainly took my mind off the pain.