Efter att ha tittat igenom ett antal böcker i mitt lokala bibliotekets webbdatabas tror jag att boken är av den svenska författaren George Johansson. Den första boken i serien heter "Uppbrott från Jorden" och släpptes 1979 och är en del av 5 i George Johanssons science fiction-serie "Universums Öde".
Jag lånade boken från biblioteket och har skrivit boken igen och konverterat den till en e-bok (epubformat). Du kan ladda ner det här: länk
Den engelska översättningen av sammanfattningen anger i stort sett:
"Year 2079 the freight ship Morning Star vanishes without a trace after a dramatic start from Mars. Morning Star is a small, relatively old fashioned freight ship in the BetaMax class. 17 500 tonnes, earth weight. Owner and captain: Len Renberg, Thule, Earth. All attempts to trace and contact the ship fail. Three earth years later, Morning Star is declared officially lost. This is what really happened. The captain, Len Renbergs own story, registered in the ship computer on board Morning Star."
Len Renberg was born in Thule on Greenland in 2046. Earth is desolate, as caused by environmental waste and nuclear war. Thule is, as the rest of our solar system, ruled by a company, Amalgamated. It controlls most things; from details in people's every day life, to instructions concerning breaking uranium on Mars.
Len Renberg has a tough time managing life on earth. And a short message from outer space helps him make a tough decision: he is going to look for a new life in another galaxy - Andromeda.
The plot of the book is set in 2079, when the spaceship Morningstar disappear without a trace after a dramatic start from March. Len Renberg live a comfortable life in Thule - Greenland. When both his father and mother died of lead poisoning, he takes a job at Amalgamated as a pilot.
After some time his uncle dies and he inherits a large sum of money. He buys his own ship and fly away and looking cargoes could be shipped to various planets for a small salary. One day he gets a job of transporting ore milled to Mars. He accepts, but after takeoff from Pluto is a sudden bang and everything goes black.
Sammanfattningarna för de efterföljande böckerna beskriver honom att hitta en ny planet med "Amalthea" och bosätta sig. Hon är mysterykvinnan.
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