Help, I'm looking for a sci-fi book title

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Hello,

I’m search for the title of a S.F book that I read as a teenager. Owe follow a man who takes up his father's challenge, a space race to find the corpse of his older brother. During his travel, his ship is "destroyed" by a kind of cloud which feeds on the metal of the ship. In the end, the hero managed to find his brother's corpse, and we learn that his biological father is some sort of Captain Nemo who died in that same space race.
I'm sorry not to be more precise, it's been too long since I read it.

P.S : I believe the author is an respecting science fiction writer.
 
Something feeding on the metal of his ship reminds me of a Puppeteer's ship being destroyed by a grain of antimatter... but that wasn't (IIRC) as part of a space race. Larry Niven's "Known Space" universe. I don't remember the story.
 
Flo0606 said:
Hello,

I’m search for the title of a S.F book that I read as a teenager. Owe follow a man who takes up his father's challenge, a space race to find the corpse of his older brother. During his travel, his ship is "destroyed" by a kind of cloud which feeds on the metal of the ship. In the end, the hero managed to find his brother's corpse, and we learn that his biological father is some sort of Captain Nemo who died in that same space race.
I'm sorry not to be more precise, it's been too long since I read it.

P.S : I believe the author is an respecting science fiction writer.
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Since we don't know when you were a teenager, would you mind giving some sense of when you read the book & whether it seemed to be brand new at the time? That could help.
 
PaulMmn said:
Something feeding on the metal of his ship reminds me of a Puppeteer's ship being destroyed by a grain of antimatter... but that wasn't (IIRC) as part of a space race. Larry Niven's "Known Space" universe. I don't remember the story.
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That was one of the Beowulf Shaeffer stories. He finds a planet made of antimatter. Tue hull of his ship gets destroyed iirc but the remainder of the ship survives. The puppeteers are so put out that they give him a new one, I think.

A ship eating ( or at least corroding) cloud is also the end of the Liberator in Blake’s 7.
 
What is this website that's usurping our position as the number one book search answering site? :LOL:

Edit: I can't deal with that. It has that upvoting and downvoting nonsense that we didn't invoke here.
 
Dave said:
What is this website that's usurping our position as the number one book search answering site? :LOL:
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I'm in there mate, one of their high fliers for answering book searches
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Dave said:
No wonder you answer so many of them here. That's kinda cheating if you have prior knowledge.
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Nah, I'm on four sites where I hover around the book search - I like the challenges because it's not often the same question gets asked across them
 
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