Chindi is Nebula Award

Nebula Award

The Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...

-nominated 2002 book by Jack McDevitt

Jack McDevitt

Jack McDevitt is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology....

of starship pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins series.

Plot Overview

Alien stealth satellites have been discovered orbiting various habitable planets (eventually including Earth) across space. The Contact Society, a group of rich alien enthusiasts set out in a brand new superluminal, with Hutch as captain, in search of the source of the strange satellites. As they travel they find a species of sapient snakes who destroyed themselves in a nuclear war, a species of avian beings who look beautiful but are really savages, and an alien retreat on an artificial moon. Then Chindi is discovered. A giant asteroid ship, almost 16km long, which seems to have no reasonable use, but when they enter it, they begin to discover its true purpose.

External links

• Chindi at Worlds Without End
• Chindi - Comments by the Author at Jack Mcdevitts Website
• Chindi Preview At Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers America