The Nemesis Pattern - by Louis Cutlar (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

In the beginning it had only been a hypothetical prediction by a brilliant astronomer. Two hundred years later, the asteroid's imminent collision with the third planet from the sun was a deadly reality. The highly advanced arcosaurs, called Bleumoids, occupying the doomed world they called Risnll, were desperate to save it from the mountain-sized asteroid, fatefully named Sphoonus. Their one-shot at averting global disaster was the anti-Sphoonus missile base installed on their neighboring world, Knosswr.

The anti-Sphoonus defense might have, otherwise, been successful had it not been for the growing political rift between Risnll and Knosswr, a world-wide plague of invasive rat-like creatures called Brissolwrs, and the severely weakened infrastructure of the corrupt empire itself.

The loyalty and determination of one Risnll representative, Swasswr, would be severely tested as he fought to overcome all of these insurmountable obstacles. In the end, only the cryptic message left him by to humans from a distant time, caused him to go on to salvage the remains of a once-glorious Empire.