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The Body Electric is a Pocket TNG novel – the third and final novel in the Cold Equations trilogy – written by David Mack. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in December 2012.
Summary[]
- From the book jacket
- At the center of the Galaxy...
- A planet-sized Machine of terrifying power and unfathomable purpose hurls entire star systems into a supermassive black hole. Wesley Crusher, now a full-fledged Traveler, knows the Machine must be stopped... but he has no idea how.
- Wesley must enlist the aid of Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew, who also fail to halt the unstoppable alien juggernaut's destructive labors. But they soon divine the Machine's true purpose – a purpose that threatens to exterminate all life in the Milky Way Galaxy.
- With time running out, Picard realizes he knows of only one person who might be able to stop the Machine in time to avert a galactic catastrophe – if only he had any idea how to find him...
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Background information[]
- Mack revealed that contracts had been signed for the novel on 8 March 2011. [1]
- The individual novel titles and story details were announced in Star Trek Magazine issue 166.
- The Body Electric reached number thirty-two on the New York Times Best Seller List for Paperback Mass-Market Fiction for 29 December 2012. [2]
- Cover design by Alan Dingman.
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