Adam Christopher's dazzling first novel, Empire State, was named the Best Book of the Year by SciFi Now magazine. Here he explores new dimensions of time and space in The Burning Dark. Back in the day, Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland had led the Fleet into battle against an implacable machine intelligence capable of devouring entire worlds. After saving a planet, and getting a bum robot knee in the process, he finds himself relegated to one of the most remote backwaters in Fleetspace, overseeing the decommissioning of a semi-deserted space station. The station's reclusive commandant is nowhere to be seen. Persistent malfunctions plague the station's systems while interference from a toxic purple star makes even ordinary communications problematic. Alien shadows and whispers seem to haunt the lonely corridors and airlocks, fraying the nerves of everyone aboard. Isolated and friendless, Cleveland reaches out to the universe via an old-fashioned space radio, only to tune in to a strange, enigmatic signal: a woman's voice that echoes across a thousand light-years of space. But is the transmission just a random bit of static from the past--or a warning of an undying menace beyond mortal comprehension? "Builds tension expertly. Claustrophobic in mood but with the scope of great space opera, this is SF you will want to read with the light on."--Library Journal, starred review, on The Burning Dark
Sobre o autor(a)
Christopher, Adam
Adam Christopher nasceu na Nova Zelândia, mas mora na Inglaterra desde 2006. Já publicou diversos livros, em sua maioria de mistério e ficção científica. Sua obra de estreia, Empire State, foi apontada como livro do ano pela revista SciFiNow e pelo jornal Financial Times. Colaborou ainda com Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, antologia comemorativa de quarenta anos da saga, e escreveu os livros oficiais da ilustre série Elementary e da premiada franquia de videogames Dishonored. Em parceria com Chuck Wendig, é responsável pelo roteiro da HQ The Shield. |