The Meld

Rescuing a freighter on the edge of unexplored space is always difficult but the dangers increase a hundred fold when Lifeship Rescue encounters an alien probe.But this is First Contact with a difference. They are lead to an uncharted planet housing a subterranean "Library of Knowledge".Mankind is offered custodianship of the vast resource but with a catch. As the Library uploads information into the students' minds it will download all their knowledge into its data banks.While...
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Rescuing a freighter on the edge of unexplored space is always difficult but the dangers increase a hundred fold when Lifeship Rescue encounters an alien probe.But this is First Contact with a difference. They are lead to an uncharted planet housing a subterranean "Library of Knowledge".Mankind is offered custodianship of the vast resource but with a catch. As the Library uploads information into the students' minds it will download all their knowledge into its data banks.While studying the prior custodian species Sheila Fayamore makes a disturbing discovery. Every previous custodian species became extinct within five centuries of First Contact. Is this just coincidence or does the Library have a hidden agenda?The alien creators are an advanced culture of incorporeal beings existing outside the space/time continuum, and beyond the reach of mankind.If humanity is in danger, how do we defend against a technology incalculable millennia ahead our own, against a race who's creatures we cannot touch, and who have the knowledge of every civilization that ever existed?Human ingenuity is pushed to the limits until help from of an unexpected ally tilts the balance against the ruthless Meld.