Stargate SG-1-23 Ouroboros

By Melissa Scott

Old friends, new enemies

When Dr Daniel Jackson discovers the location of a lost Ancient laboratory, the temptation to investigate proves impossible to resist...

In the lab, he uncovers a powerful device — a prototype technology designed by the Ancient inventor, Janus, to supersede the Stargate network. But when the Ouroborus device accidentally activates, it strands General O’Neill and his team on a dangerous new world where friends are not always friends and a terrible enemy is stirring.

Now all SG-1 have to do is survive long enough to find their way home...

Another thrilling adventure from Melissa Scott, co-author of the hit Stargate Atlantis Legacy series.

Ouroboros
There was a thrashing from the grass behind her, and Daniel joined them, his eyebrows rising as he took in the stone and its markings.

“Ouroboros,” he said.

“What?” Sam gave him a wary glance.
“The snake that eats its own tail.” Daniel moved further along the side of the stone slab, studying the carving. “It’s a symbol for infinity, and also for alchemy, for the transformation of base matter into gold, or matter into energy. And also —”

He looked over his shoulder, his smile suddenly mischievous.

“In Earth’s mythology, it’s associated with the god Janus.”

“Oh, come on,” Sam protested, but it made a certain amount of sense. Everything they’d seen of Janus so far suggested that he was just that arrogant.

“If he went to all this trouble to hide his secret lab, why would he carve his name on the front door...?”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Crossroad Press
• Release date: Jun 21, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301557165

Melissa Scott

Melissa Scott is from Little Rock, Arkansas, and studied history at Harvard College and Brandeis University, where she earned her PhD in the Comparative History program. She is the author of more than thirty original science fiction and fantasy novels, most with queer themes and characters, as well as authorized tie-ins for Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Star Wars Rebels. She won Lambda Literary Awards for Trouble and Her Friends, Shadow Man, Point of Dreams (written with her late partner, Lisa A. Barnett), and Death By Silver, with Amy Griswold. She also won Spectrum Awards for Shadow Man, Fairs’ Point, Death By Silver, and for the short story “The Rocky Side of the Sky” (Periphery, Lethe Press) as well as the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She was also shortlisted for the Otherwise (Tiptree) Award. Her latest short story, “Sirens,” appeared in the collection Retellings of the Inland Seas, and her text-based game for Choice of Games, A Player’s Heart, came out in 2020. Her most recent solo novel, Water Horse, was published in June 2021. Her next solo novel, The Master of Samar, will be out in 2023.