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Harper Voyager
August 2017
On Sale: August 1, 2017
Featuring: Astrophysicist Reggie Straife
432 pages
ISBN: 0062497847
EAN: 9780062497840
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Science Fiction Space Opera
With nods to Arthur C. Clarkeβs Rama series, the real science of Neal Stephensonβs Seveneves, a touch of Hugh Howeyβs Wool, and told through echoes of Octavia Butlerβs voice, this is a powerful tale of space travel, adventure, discovery, and humanity that unfolds through a series of generational vignettes In 2088, humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earthβs solar system. But one uncertainty remains: Where do we go? Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has an idea. Heβs discovered an anomalous star that appears to defy the laws of physics, and proposes the creation of a deep-space mission to find out whether the star is a weird natural phenomenon, or something manufactured. The journey will take eons. In order to maintain the genetic talent of the original crew, humankindβs greatest ambitionβto explore the furthest reaches of the galaxyβis undertaken by clones. But a clone is not a perfect copy, and each new generation has its own quirks, desires, and neuroses. As the centuries fly by, the society living aboard the nine ships (designated βConvoy Sevenβ) changes and evolves, but their mission remains the same: to reach Reggieβs mysterious star and explore its originsβand implications. A mosaic novel of discovery, Noumenonβin a series of vignettesβexamines the dedication, adventure, growth, and fear of having your entire world consist of nine ships in the vacuum of space. The men and women, and even the AI, must learn to work and live together in harmony, as their original DNA is continuously replicated and they are born again and again into a thousand new lives. With the stars their home and the unknown their destination, they are on a voyage of many lifetimesβan odyssey to understand what lies beyond the limits of human knowledge and imagination.
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