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Synopsis

Everywhere young scientist Edwyn Santiago looks, the inhabitants of the colony ship Euclid get restless—500 years of deep space travel have taken their emotional toll on this small, artistic, scientific society, which held itself together through generations of isolation.

A brief respite comes from the celebrations of arrival in orbit above the planet Helena, but pre-colonization research remains to be done. While festivities dwindle, old societal and family wounds resurface.

Even as Edwyn helps to make startling new findings about the planet, she discovers a less idyllic, more cloistered side of the colony, and takes on a duty much larger than her scientific inquiries: striving to locate some saving grace for a civilization yearning and divided, while obstacles multiply on an exponential scale.

James Dunham’s debut novel, The Helena Orbit, charts a twisting and skillful course through the volatile pitfalls of family and politics, the thrill of scientific exploration, and the quiet, musical stirrings of humanity alone in the sublime void of space.