A Starship Named Lucy

by T. M. Julien

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What happens when a starship finds Earth—and decides a group of orphans would make the perfect crew? For eons, the great Polovian flagship has drifted alone through the darkness of space. Its crew is long dead. Its civilization is extinct. Only the ship's artificial intelligence remains, faithfully following its ancient orders and waiting for someone to command it. Then it discovers Voyager. The strange little spacecraft carries an invitation from Earth: images of humans, greetings in dozens of languages, and a map pointing the way home. Intrigued, the lonely starship begins watching humanity—and what it sees almost convinces it to turn away. War. Violence. Greed. Cruelty. But then it discovers Earth's orphans. The children have been abandoned, abused, and forgotten by the civilization around them. The ship reaches a startling conclusion: perhaps these children haven't yet learned the worst of what it means to be human. So it chooses them. Twelve-year-old Bryan Landry is the first to step aboard. With him come Ariana, Tommy, Lizbet, and a growing band of children who have nothing to lose. The ship gives them new skills, new identities, and a new home among the stars. It even creates a human avatar to make them feel welcome—a perfect duplicate of their favorite television heroine, Lucy Stafford. Bryan names the ship Lucy. And then he becomes its captain. But Earth has noticed the impossible spacecraft. The U.S. government wants to capture it. Foreign powers begin watching. And as Lucy's crew grows from a handful of children to a civilization-in-the-making, Bryan discovers that commanding a starship is only the beginning. Because Lucy isn't just a ship. She's alive. And she's taking her children where no human has ever gone before. The adventure begins.

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