Five centuries from home. One nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. And now, something is answering.
Months have passed since the USS Gerald R. Ford vanished from the twenty-first century and appeared in the year 1519. Its crew has survived disease, political intrigue, Spanish attacks, and the dangerous consequences of introducing modern technology into a world that was never meant to possess it. Fort Rainbow has grown from a desperate beachhead into a settlement thousands now depend on. Alliances have formed. Enemies have adapted. Then the experimental Rainbow system detects an impossible signal. A modern signal.
For the first time, the crew may have found a path home. But hope creates a new kind of crisis. Some sailors have children, spouses, and parents waiting in the twenty-first century. Others have built relationships and lives in 1519 they are no longer willing to abandon. Spain has stopped treating the Americans as a miracle and begun hunting their technology—and the people who understand it. Inland powers move against Fort Rainbow. And aboard the carrier itself, some begin to question whether military orders still have the same meaning when the United States is five centuries away. As the Ford returns to sea, reconnaissance turns violent, loyalties fracture, sailors disappear, and the first controlled Rainbow experiments begin. The way home may finally exist. But getting there may cost the crew everything they have built in the past.
Genre: Science Fiction
Months have passed since the USS Gerald R. Ford vanished from the twenty-first century and appeared in the year 1519. Its crew has survived disease, political intrigue, Spanish attacks, and the dangerous consequences of introducing modern technology into a world that was never meant to possess it. Fort Rainbow has grown from a desperate beachhead into a settlement thousands now depend on. Alliances have formed. Enemies have adapted. Then the experimental Rainbow system detects an impossible signal. A modern signal.
For the first time, the crew may have found a path home. But hope creates a new kind of crisis. Some sailors have children, spouses, and parents waiting in the twenty-first century. Others have built relationships and lives in 1519 they are no longer willing to abandon. Spain has stopped treating the Americans as a miracle and begun hunting their technology—and the people who understand it. Inland powers move against Fort Rainbow. And aboard the carrier itself, some begin to question whether military orders still have the same meaning when the United States is five centuries away. As the Ford returns to sea, reconnaissance turns violent, loyalties fracture, sailors disappear, and the first controlled Rainbow experiments begin. The way home may finally exist. But getting there may cost the crew everything they have built in the past.
Genre: Science Fiction
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