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While returning from a medical delivery to Deep Space Station C‑15, the Enterprise slips into a previously unknown spatial distortion near the planet Mu Arigulon. The ship is abruptly pulled out of warp, and a second, more catastrophic distortion hits. Suddenly, several officers fall into comas with no clear cause. Dr. Leonard McCoy discovers that the afflicted are espers—humans possessing unusually strong telepathic and psychic abilities. To aid them, McCoy is forced to link mentally with their minds, plunging into a nightmarish dream‑world that threatens to destroy the Enterprise and everyone aboard.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Michael Schuster
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