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“Simultaneously brutally grounded and wildly imaginative.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner
A tense and thrilling vision of humanity’s future in the chilling emptiness of space from rising giant in science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tade Thompson
The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousand sleeping souls to a new home among the stars. But when first mate Michelle Campion rouses, she discovers some of the sleepers will never wake.
Answering Campion’s distress call, investigator Rasheed Fin is tasked with finding out who is responsible for these deaths. Soon a sinister mystery unfolds aboard the gigantic vessel, one that will have repercussions for the entire system—from the scheming politicians of Lagos station, to the colony planet Bloodroot, to other far-flung systems, and indeed to Earth itself.
Praise for Far from the Light of Heaven
“Gripping and skillfully told, with an economy and freshness of approach that is all Tade Thompson”s own. The setting is interstellar, but it feels as real, immediate, and lethal as today’s headlines.” —Alastair Reynolds
“[I]nventive, exciting and compulsively readable…This book is like the Tardis, larger inside than out, with a range of ideas, characters, and fascinating future settings making it probably the best science fiction novel of the year.” —The Guardian
For more from Tade Thompson, check out:
The Wormwood Trilogy
Rosewater
Rosewater: Insurrection
Rosewater: Redemption
From the Publisher
ASIN : B08W515YBD
Publisher : Orbit (October 26, 2021)
Publication date : October 26, 2021
Language : English
File size : 905 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 385 pages
Customers say
Customers find the storyline engaging and suspenseful. They praise the writing quality as excellent and readable. The characters are described as great and the spaceship captain is described as awesome. Readers find the book to be well-written and enjoyable for most of the book. However, opinions differ on whether the book provokes thought or is dense and unfriendly. There are mixed views on the pacing, with some finding it incredible and others describing it as terrible or awkward.
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