Limbo System

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Limbo System is a science fiction novel by Rick Cook. A starship's FTL expedition to survey the stars stumbles upon the civilization of the alien Colonists -- humanity's first contact.

Tropes featured in this work.

• Buy Them Off
• The Captain: Jenkins grows into the role
• Colonel Kilgore: Major DeLorenzo
• Dirty Business: getting Toyodo to volunteer
• Driven to Suicide: To escape capture
• Due to The Dead
• Fearless Fool: Billy Toyodo -- for an unusual reason
• Forgiveness: a significiant topic of philosophical discussion.
• Good Shepherd: Father Simon
• I Choose to Stay: Two characters stay with the aliens in the end
• Katanas Are Just Better: Dr. Takiuji's
• The Missionary: Father Simon. Accidentally
• My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: computer assisted.
• Number Two: Iron Alice De Rosa
• The Quisling: Aubrey
• Reassigned to Antarctica: It's estimated that about a third of the people were sent into exile.