’AN EXCEPTIONAL BLEND OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, HARD SCIENCE, AND FIRST CONTACT’ Michael Mammay, author of the Planetside series’MACLEOD’S BEST BOOK TO DATE’ SFXScience fiction legend Ken Mac Leod begins a new space opera trilogy by imagining humankind on the precipice of discovery – the invention of faster-than-light travel unlocks a universe of new possibilities, and new dangers.When a brilliant scientist gets a letter from herself about faster-than-light travel, she doesn’t know what to believe. The equations work, but her paper is discredited – and soon the criticism is more than scientific. Exiled by the establishment, she gets an offer to build her starship from an unlikely source. But in the heights of Venus and on a planet of another star, a secret is already being uncovered that will shake humanity to its foundations.Discover this ground-breaking new space opera from multi-award winning author Ken Mac Leod Praise for Ken Mac Leod:’If you like science fiction, you will love this. . . a rollicking good read’ Scotsman 'Mac Leod is up there with Banks and Hamilton as one of the British sci-fi authors you absolutely have to read’ SFX’Prose as sleek and fast as the technology it describes. . . watch this man go global’ Peter F. Hamilton on Star Fraction’Ken Mac Leod has an enviable track record of extrapolating from current trends to produce mind-bending novels of ideas’ Guardian Also by Ken Mac Leod:Lightspeed Beyond the Hallowed Sky Fall Revolution The Star Fraction The Stone Canal The Cassini Division The Sky Road Engines of Light Cosmonaut Keep Dark Light Engine City Corporation Wars Trilogy Dissidence Insurgence Emergence Novels The Human Front Newton’s Wake Learning the World The Execution Channel The Restoration Game Intrusion Descent
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