| Contents |
Part one: Exogenesis. Dreams -- Reliquary -- Extenuating circumstances -- Anguish -- Madness -- Shouts & echoes -- Countdown -- Out & about -- Choices -- Exeunt I -- Part two: Sublimare. Awakening -- Wallfish -- Assumptions -- Kriegsspiel -- Extremis -- Near & far -- Icons & indications -- Nowhere to hide -- Graceling -- Darmstadt -- Exposure -- Lessons -- Exeunt II -- Part three: Apocalypsis. Past sins -- A caelo usque ad centrum -- Shards -- Terror -- Sic itur ad astra -- Into the dark -- Necessity -- Sins of the present -- Exeunt III -- Part four: Fidelitatis. Dissonance -- Orsted station -- Escape! -- Necessity II -- Exeunt IV -- Part five: Malignitatem. Arrival -- Necessity III -- Integratum -- Ferro Comitante -- Astrorum Irae -- Sub specie aeternitatis -- Exeunt V -- Part Six: Quietus. Recognition -- Unity -- Decession -- Exeunt VI -- Addendum. Appendix I: Spacetime & FTL -- Appendix II: Ship-based combat in space -- Appendix III: Terminology -- Appendix IV: Timeline -- Afterword & acknowledgments. |
| Summary |
During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope . . . |
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Adult Brodart. |
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Human-alien encounters -- Fiction.
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Space colonies -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Science fiction.
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| Series |
Fractalverse ; [1]
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| ISBN |
9781250762849
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1250762847
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