Starhawk
McDevitt, Jack
Starhawk - London Headline Publishing Group 2013 - 407p.,
https://www.headline.co.uk/titles/jack-mcdevitt/starhawk/9781472203311/
"From Nebula-Award winning Jack McDevitt comes the thrilling, edge-of-your-seat tale of interstellar pilot Priscilla ‘Hutch’ Hutchins’s very first mission. Not to be missed by readers of Ray Bradbury and Joe Haldeman.
Hutch has finally realised her dream: she’s completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pilot’s licence.
Her timing is far from optimal, however. Faster-than-light travel has only recently become a reality and the World Space Authority is still learning how to manage long-range missions safely. To make matters worse, efforts to prepare two planets for colonization are killing off native life forms, outraging people on Earth. So interstellar pilots are not exactly in demand."
9781472203311 (pbk.)
Science fiction
Women air pilots
Space ships
813.54 / MCD
Starhawk - London Headline Publishing Group 2013 - 407p.,
https://www.headline.co.uk/titles/jack-mcdevitt/starhawk/9781472203311/
"From Nebula-Award winning Jack McDevitt comes the thrilling, edge-of-your-seat tale of interstellar pilot Priscilla ‘Hutch’ Hutchins’s very first mission. Not to be missed by readers of Ray Bradbury and Joe Haldeman.
Hutch has finally realised her dream: she’s completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pilot’s licence.
Her timing is far from optimal, however. Faster-than-light travel has only recently become a reality and the World Space Authority is still learning how to manage long-range missions safely. To make matters worse, efforts to prepare two planets for colonization are killing off native life forms, outraging people on Earth. So interstellar pilots are not exactly in demand."
9781472203311 (pbk.)
Science fiction
Women air pilots
Space ships
813.54 / MCD