Zahn serpentine (2 risultati)

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Every adult on Earth is about to remember a war they never fought - and a sentence they never agreed to serve. Astronomer Mira Okonkwo has spent her career making the sky boring. Then her survey flags comet C/2031 K2: an object with the wrong orbit, a trail of appearances in Sumerian star charts and Chinese court records, and, buried in twenty years of tracking data, one impossible fact. It is slowing down. It is not passing Earth. It is arriving. The six-person crew sent to intercept it finds no ice and no rock - only a hull four kilometers long, a door that opens to the warmth of a human hand, and a chamber holding a memory two million years old: the civilization humanity used to be, the war it won at an unbearable price, and the vote by which it sentenced itself to erasure and exile on a small blue world. Then the ship speaks to everyone at once. Ninety seconds. Every language. Every adult mind on Earth receives the whole forgotten history, ending in the one voice each listener trusts most: "You have reached the age at which you may choose." As the world fractures - between those who want the inheritance back, those who believe the ancestors were right to bury it, and the third of humanity that refuses to believe any of it - a signal arrives from the outer dark. The civilization that carried out the sentence has noticed. An envoy is coming. It brings a single question, and a divided species will be heard as giving a single answer: Has the sentence been broken, or has it ended? Book One of THE LINE CONTINUES. A first-contact epic of memory, guilt, and inheritance, in the tradition of Eon, Arrival, and Revelation Space - for readers who want their alien mysteries ancient, their choices earned, and their endings honest. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…