You can get a free download of the first book in Vonda N. McIntyre's The Starfarers Quartet series, Starfarers, over at BookView Cafe and you don't even have to create an account (then again, you don't add it to your own account, if you have one, just get access to the download). I don't see any of the Quartet on Kindle, but they have all four books, as either separate downloads or the entire series ominibus, if you decide to buy them.Book Description
The starship Starfarer is poised for our first voyage to another star system. The Alien Contact Team — physicist Victoria Fraser MacKenzie, geneticist Stephen Thomas Gregory, geographer Satoshi Lono, and alien contact specialist J.D. Sauvage — and the rest of the faculty and staff prepare for humanity’s most ambitious exploratory expedition.
But the world has changed. A new regime orders the vessel to be abandoned. It will be turned into an instrument of war.
What do the Starfarers do?
They do what any red-blooded Alien Contact Team would do.
They steal the starship.
Click HERE for directions and access to the free book.
