Name: The Long Dark
SKU: 69148877
Price: 16.72 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Raymond Stone
ISBN: 9798177675800

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Independently published

Author

Raymond Stone

Language

English

Pages

312

ISBN13

9798177675800

The Long Dark

Raymond Stone (Author) · Independently published · Physical Book

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Synopsis "The Long Dark"

Something is drifting out of the dark between the stars. A survey ship on a routine debris-mapping run at the edge of the Doreth system finds an object that should not be there: small, ancient, and unmistakably built by somebody. It is brought in, secured, and handed to a classified research programme that almost nobody outside a handful of names is permitted to know exists. Archivist Ren Kalyth is given the unglamorous job of working out what it actually is. Pictures of an unfamiliar world. Sounds that do not quite mean what they seem to. An age reading so large the engineers stop saying the number out loud in meetings. Ren's careful, patient decoding work is exactly what the object needs, and exactly what nobody is prepared to wait for. Then it leaks, and the waiting stops. A faith finds doctrine in it. A politician finds a cause. A broadcaster finds an audience willing to believe almost anything before the Institute is willing to confirm anything at all. Ren has a hunch that explains everything and a protocol that will not let anyone act on a hunch, however good, until two lines of evidence that were never compared to each other land on the same answer. What that answer turns out to be changes the question entirely. Not where the object came from. When. A patient, quietly devastating science fiction novel about discovery, institutional caution, and a civilisation forced to reconsider not whether it is alone in the universe, but whether it was ever really first, from the author of *What Was Left Behind* and *The Next Reveal*.