gilda_elise

The end of exile.

Long before the world of the Ganymeans blew apart, millennia ago, the strange race of giants had vanished. No one could discover their fate, nor where they had gone, nor why. There was only a wrecked ship abandoned on a frozen satellite of Jupiter. And now Earth's code and scientists were there, determined to ferret out the secret of the lost race.

And suddenly, spinning out of the vastness of space and immensity of time, the ship of the strange, humanoid giants returned. They brought with them answers that would alter all Mankind's knowledge of human origins in startling revelations from the past that would have biologic reverberations to be at this time.

As its predecessor did, much of this book revolves more around the mystery of the Ganymeans; where did the rest of them go, and what did they have to do with Man’s history? Those who have returned seem open to all of the humans’ questions, but are they, really?

And, as in its predecessor, the main characters are rather two dimensional, though Hunt is given a couple of one-night stands, to show that he’s a manly man, I guess. He’s almost as much of an enigma as the Ganymeans. Dancheckker stays mostly in the background.

But, finally, a major female character! Except she’s one of the aliens; guess you can’t have everything.

All of this is a shame, because the book does, again like its predecessor, deliver when it comes to keeping the reader interested in the mystery. There is a bit of annoying slangy speak, especially since it’s between humans and the Ganymeans, but it wasn’t enough to put me off.