The Corps of Engineers team on the da Vinci starship takes on some of its greatest challenges, from a runaway colony ship to fixing an artificial planetary ring, from weapons inspection to clearing a field of dead ships, and from solving a centuries-old medical mystery to a life-or-death struggle to deactivate a probe on a war-torn planet.
Keith R.A. DeCandido was born and raised in New York City to a family of librarians. He has written over two dozen novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction, and comic books, most of them in various media universes, among them Star Trek, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Marvel Comics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, Resident Evil, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, Farscape, Xena, and Doctor Who.
Other contributors include: Allyn Gibson, Kevin Killiany, Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore, David Mack, Dave Galanter, and Paul Kupperberg.