Steven Montana, computer whiz and hacker extraordinaire, was attending
college in Ohio when his world fell apart. A swarm of huge meteors fell
all over the world, on Europe, on the United States, and in particular
on Steven¿s home town in California. In an instant, his family and all
his friends were gone. Eventually, he learned that the ¿meteor¿
onslaught that had orphaned him had actually been a brief and still
secret war between the U.S and its enemies (as told in Warp Speed)
using a new warp drive technology that was more secret than top secret.
Another secret was that U.S. had been sending faster-than-light ships to
other star systems. Most secret of all was that unfriendly aliens were
observing the Earth, and while U.S. spaceships were not quite in a war
with the unknown aliens, they were shooting at the intruders. Whether
any of these answers would do Steven any good was an open question
because he learned them only after his was abducted by those very same
aliens and was held prisoner on one of their ships orbiting Saturn. At
first, he was one of three human prisoners, but he had just seen the
aliens completely dissect one of the three, and it looked like either
Steven, or the Russian girl who was his fellow prisoner, were scheduled
to be the next alien lab experiment. . . .
