Den Namen Adrian Tchaikowsky kennt die SF-Fannin durch den grandiosen Roman CHILDREN OF TIME, der nicht nur die Odyssee eines irdischen Generationenschiffs beleuchtet, sondern auch die durch Menschen ausgelöste Evolution einer Spinnenzivilisation. Ganz großes SF-Kino, das ich auch besprochen hatte.
Bereits im Mai erschien Tchaikowskis Roman SHARDS OF EARTH, der der Opener einer neuen Trilogie ist. Inhaltsangabe:
Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity’s heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers.
After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting élite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared—and Idris and his kind became obsolete.
Now, fifty years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space. It’s clearly the work of the Architects—but are they returning? And if so, why? Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy hunting for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, that many would kill to obtain.
SHARDS OF EARTH wird bei TOR verlegt, das Taschenbuch kostet ca. 14 Euro, für das eBook werden bei Amazon neun Euro fällig.
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