The Cingulum follows a crew of criminals blackmailed by the ruthless Timur Khan Bey into infiltrating The Cingulum, one of the last star systems still resisting the Bahadur. But the cingulum holds more than a few rebels and refugees, it holds the secrets of an alien race that vanished millions of years ago.

This book is a classic sci-fi adventure story, Roberts adds some interesting twists to an old story and does a good job of filling in his characters. It hardly changed the genre forever but i liked it a lot. ( )