Discover a New Breed of Hero.Meet Jelly Anderson. She’s four years old, weighs 10 lbs and is 7.5 cm tall. Loving, fierce, and loyal, she’s the pride and joy of her young owner, Jamie, who enters her in the Star Cat Project: a global contest to find the first feline astronaut. The winner will join a manned expedition to Saturn. Their mission: decode a distress call that only cats respond to.Now, … call that only cats respond to.
Now, Jelly has a new playground: a vast spacecraft full of snarky artificial intelligence, double-crossing humans, and ruthless mechs. Life is good – all nine of them. But something fantastic, violent, and beyond our imagination awaits at their destination. This bad-ass Star Cat is about to discover her true calling, and realize that in space, no one can hear you purr.
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Jelly, the cat, wins in the competition to go into space to explore the universe and the strength signals they received. only she could deceiver them. She flies up with her crew members, asleep for the time. arriving there, well, lots is happening you never see it coming. At the end of the book, only Jelly is still awake and tries, yes, she is, to save her crew members.
Amazing story. Love Jelly. Had to get the next book in line.
An unusual Sci-Fi story. I liked how Jelly, the star cat, adapted to all the problems and trials she faced. I liked how she came to care about some of her fellow crewmembers. This story has action, intrigue, and a conspiracy. There is danger from something unkown from space. This is the first in the series.
From a workstation on the moon in the twenty-second century, where a team has monitored strange screeching noises emanating from Saturn for six years, a member calls his family, only to notice that the family cat, a female, reacts strangely to the sounds coming through the transmission. By this pure chance, USARIC, the American-Russian consortium tracking the sounds, discovers that only female cats react to the code, which is the only link they have to an expedition that disappeared while searching for the source of what’s now called “the Saturn Cry.” This realization leads to a worldwide contest to find the feline most suited to venture into space. The ultimate choice is Jelly Anderson, the beloved cat of five-year-old Jamie Anderson of Great Britain, and while his mother recognizes the value to their impoverished lives of the $250,000 reward for Jelly’s two-year mission, he regrets letting her go.
However, as a member of Space Opera Beta, Jelly exceeds expectations and, with the help of a supercomputer named Pure Genius, interprets the bizarre sounds. They’re coming from what turns out to be the lost expedition, Space Opera Alpha, which is hiding, abandoned, on the dark side of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. However, they have no clue what the two-word message means. When the crew ventures to the deserted ship to investigate, they discover carnage and mayhem, as well as saboteurs in their midst. Only through the bravery of their captain, and the human-like heroics of Jelly, does the crew survive to return to their ship, but what will happen as Space Opera Beta runs out of oxygen?
As encapsulated in the name of the vessels, Andrew Mackay has constructed the perfect space opera. Star Cat: Infinity Claws is a suspenseful beginning to Team Beta’s, and more importantly, Jelly’s, journey to discover just what lurks in the voids of the universe.
Infinity claws was my introduction to the Star Cat series. I was really impressed. Of course, being a cat lover myself may have biased my opinion just a little.
It’s a bit difficult to describe the book without giving away too much information. You just have to grab a copy and read it. You won’t be sorry, Jelly and her new friends will make sure of that.
Tripp Healy decided to call home from the moon where he had been for two weeks. While talking to his wife and son showed them what the earth looked like his bedroom on the moon. Rogan his son wanted to know when he could come to the moon and Tripp said maybe when you’re older about that time a black cat walked into the room named Spooky. He told them that Opera Alpha was missing. Then he played the Saturn Cry and spooky reacted to it. Manuel the virtual computer then begin to explain that the Saturn cry is a perceived distress call from the planet of Saturn made a striking want sound like an excessive blue on a drum spooky got down and was ready to attack anything in her proximity Tripp got his wife Samantha to turn the camera down and nothing happened. Trip had Manuel replay the cry and on the first boom spooky shrieked Her tail got bushy and she was ready to attack something then there was another boom and spooky calm down immediately letting out economy now and gave broken a cuddled and then plumped again and spooky jumped in the air Willingboro landing on her feet.
A year later they had the Cat Trials in which millions of people brought their female cats who weighed between five and 10 pounds she must be between three and five years H she must not have any elements the abilities or injuries where jelly Anderson and orange female cat got entered into the Cat Trials. To find out how the Trials were conducted and who one you must get the book and read it I’ll be honest with you I didn’t care for the cat trials the rest of the book is a really good read…
I enjoyed this book. It shows how if it was a possibility to but an animal in space, how the selection may be done. We of course only want the smartest, strongest and healthiest to go. The cat in this story is so cool! There are many unexpected happenings.
I read Star Cat Origins prior to reading Infinity Claws to lay the groundwork for this book.
I was intrigued by the concept of a cat in space so the book had me from the start.
Through a lot of contests and due to an unforeseen event our little feline was selected to be the first cat in space. The book started to get interesting when the ship neared it’s destination and became a real page turner as it reached its ending leaving me drained wondering what was going to happen next to Jelly and her friends. I saw some of the twists coming but others caught me completely off guard.
I heartily recommend this book to anyone who loves cats and space travel. Give it a try. You won’t be disappointed!