MacLeod's first instillation in the Lightspeed trilogy is out of this
world!Mathematician Lakshmi Nayak receives a letter from her future self
about faster-than-light travel. The equations work, and the letter
itself seems to prove the possibility will someday be realized. But her
paper on the topic is fiercely criticized, and she's warned away by a
sinister Alliance agent. After defecting to the Union, she gets an
unexpected offer: "I can build your ship." Shipbuilder John Grant learns
of a secret project, which unknown to the world has been traveling to
the stars for decades: Black Horizon.Biologist Emma Hazeldene works for
Black Horizon on an alien world, Apis, whose life has clearly come from
Earth, investigating rock formations that are thought to be an alien,
crystal-like intelligence. But refugees exiled to a hard life in the
wilds of Apis already know more than the scientists have ever suspected.
Everything changes when the rocks wake up, with dire results.As secrets
emerge and rival powers seize advantage, three worlds are shaken to
their foundations--and all involved have to fight for their lives, and
their futures.Science fiction legend Ken MacLeod begins a new space
opera trilogy by imagining humankind on the precipice of discovery--the
invention of faster-than-light travel unlocks a universe of new
possibilities, and new dangers.
