![]() 'State-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one' Neal Ascher. It deserves to walk away with the Clarke, the Hugo, the Nebula, the BSFA, and pretty much any other genre award for which it's eligible. You'll see something else entirely: you'll see extinction. You're baseline, half-blind, a primitive barely climbed down from the trees. That hive mind back in the cargo hold will see the Face of God. It puts the whole of the rest of the genre in the shade. The vampire will see an end to loneliness. 'If you only read one science fiction novel this year, make it this one!. ![]() 'A tour de force, redefining the First Contact story for good.' Charles Stross. Their crews can barely be called human, what they will face certainly can't. Two ships, Theseus and the Crown of Thorns, are launched to discover the origin of Earth's visitation, one bound for the outer dark of the Kuiper Belt, the other for the heart of the Solar System. FirefallEdit Blindsight (October 2006, Tor Books, 978-0-7653-1218-1) Echopraxia (August 2014, Tor Books, 978-0-7653-2802-1) Firefall (August 2014, Head of. Something out there talks – but not to us. Three hundred and sixty degrees of global surveillance: something just took a snapshot. ![]() Sixty-two thousand objects of unknown origin plunge into Earth's atmosphere – a perfect grid of falling stars screaming across the radio spectrum as they burn. Firefall is the omnibus edition of the novels Blindsight and Echopraxia. ![]()
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