Spindrift, is a fast paced science fiction novel by Hugo Award winning author Allen Steele. He deftly addresses Fermi's paradox of why humans haven't found evidence of alien civilization by joining this to the question of rapid interstellar travel and by starting the action in 2288. Although independent of the Coyote trilogy, Spindrift is set in the same universe and has a timeline that interweaves with Coyote.