Its been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us. Who to send to meet the alien, when the alien doesnt want to meet? Send a linguist with multiple-personality disorder, and a biologist so spliced to machinery he cant feel his own flesh. Send a pacifist warrior, and a vampire recalled from the grave by the voodoo of paleogenetics. Send a man with half his mind gone since childhood. Send them to the edge of the solar system, praying you can trust such freaks and monsters with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing theyve been sent to find - but youd give anything for that to be true, if you knew what was waiting for them.
خواندن متن اصلی انگلیسی
Its been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us. Who to send to meet the alien, when the alien doesnt want to meet? Send a linguist with multiple-personality disorder, and a biologist so spliced to machinery he cant feel his own flesh. Send a pacifist warrior, and a vampire recalled from the grave by the voodoo of paleogenetics. Send a man with half his mind gone since childhood. Send them to the edge of the solar system, praying you can trust such freaks and monsters with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing theyve been sent to find - but youd give anything for that to be true, if you knew what was waiting for them.
شناسنامهٔ کتاب
- تعداد صفحات
- ۳۸۴
- زبان
- English
- ناشر
- Tor Books
- شابک
- 9780000000000
جوایز
- Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2007)
- Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2007)
- Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Nominee for Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work) (2009)
- Sunburst Award Nominee for Canadian Novel (2007)
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee (2007)
- Grand Prix de lImaginaire for Traduction (2009)
۴ جایزهٔ دیگر
- Premio Ignotus Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel) (2010)
- Tähtivaeltaja Award (2014)
- Prix Aurora Award Nominee for Best Long-Form Work in English (2007)
- Seiun Award 星雲賞 for Best Translated Long Story (2014
