Voyager in the Night

STATED FIRST PRINTING. April 1984 DAW MASS MARKET PAPERBACK, C. J. Cherryh (Emergence: Foreigner Sequence 7, Book 1). Rafe Murray, his sister Jillian, and Jillian's husband Paul Gaines, like many other out-of-luck spacers, had come to newly-built Endeavor Station to find their future. Their tiny ship, Lindy, had been salvaged from the junk heap, and fitted to mine ore from the mineral-rich rings which circled Endeavor. But their future proved to be far stranger than any of them imagined, when a "collision" with a huge alien vessel provided them with the oddest first contact experience possible! - Amazon