Starbound ( Marsbound 2) – Joe Haldeman Free Audiobook

Written by Joe Haldeman
Format: MP3
Unabridged

The workmanlike sequel to 2008’s Marsbound continues the adventures of red planet colonist Carmen The Mars Girl Dula
and her pilot husband, Paul Collins, as they set out on a deep space mission to save humankind from possible
annihilation. After barely surviving the first encounter with an alien Other, Earth’s leaders decide to send a ship
with seven envoys after the Other’s craft in a possibly suicidal attempt to reach the Other’s home world and forge some
kind of understanding. During the 6-year voyage, the crew comes to some startling realizations concerning humankind and
its place in the stars.

Carmen Dula and her husband pilot Paul Collins met when she saved earth and Mars from the destruction of the Others
(see Marsbound). However, though they were successful for now, everyone knows that the human-Martian alliance is not
close to matching the military might of the Others. Desperation leads to a peace envoy to journey to the solar system
that is home to the Others to try to negotiate a lasting peace.

Most people felt this Hail Mary quest was a suicide mission, but shockingly the six year trip has Carmen and Paul
returning home, but on earth five decades have passed. In the interim mankind has constructed weapons of mass
destruction to counter any Others invasion. However, neither earth nor Mars understands just how powerful the Others
areas they refuse to accept the slightest hint of a counterinsurgency.