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Seth Dickinson
Michael Crichton meets Marvel’s Venom in award-winning author Seth Dickinson’s science fiction debut, named one of The New York Times' Best SFF Books of 2024."Agonizing and mesmerizing, a devastating and extraordinary achievement."—The New York Times“Magnificent. . . . A science fiction action juggernaut.”—Tamsyn Muir“Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. It’s very unlikely that you’ll die right now. It wouldn’t be narratively complete.”Anna Sinjari—refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker—has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. Enter Ssrin, a many-headed serpent alien who is on the run from her own past. Ssrin and Anna are inexorably, dangerously drawn to each other, and their contact reveals universe-threatening stakes. While humanity reels from disaster, Anna must join a small team of civilians, soldiers, and scientists to investigate a mysterious broadcast and unknowable horror. If they can manage to face their own demons, they just might save the world.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Author
Seth Dickinson
Pages
400
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Published Date
2024-01-23
ISBN
1250233003 9781250233004
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"This is one of those science fiction books that makes you feel smarter than you really are. It pours out theoretical physics and mathematical theorems in a way that isn’t daunting and overwhelming, while still having a fast-paced creative plot. This book takes on the alien invasion apocalypse genre and turns it into this beautiful story about morality, society, the military industrial complex, religion, science, love, friendship, toxic masculinity, and control. It may seem like that’s a lot of things to be crammed into a book, but Seth has managed to fit it all in and still has a little room for humor, trauma and grief. The book begins with an unsatisfied office worker from New York, Anna Sinjari, encountering an injured alien in a park that tells her that the universe and Earth are in danger. When a mysterious alien object and signal is detected in a small Iraqi Kurdish village that survived Genocide from Saddam Hussein, the military and science communities from all the major governments head to investigate. Since this is the village where Anna was born, the US government picks her up and takes her along for the ride even though the way she left the village haunts her to this day… read this book. Its crazy good."
Nicole Falche