Ken MacLeod is back with a stellar interstellar addition to the
Lightspeed trilogy!
THE FERMI ARE AWAKE...
The invention of faster-than-light technology has brought great
opportunity, but also great danger.
The Black Horizon conspiracy is broken up, but it still has deadly
assets beyond the reach of Earth. As the great powers jostle for
advantage, the alien minds known as the Fermi have their own ways of
dealing with humans meddling in plans vaster and more ancient than
anyone can suspect.
After the Venus catastrophe, John Grant's starship Fighting Chance and
the Space Station have reached Apis--but not for long. They barely have
time to mourn the dead before they're chased out of the system. The
Station begins exploring the systems Black Horizon warned them
against--with good reason, as they soon discover.
On Apis, Alliance agent Marcus Owen has a new mission: to communicate
with the alien intelligences in the rocks, and to stop anyone else from
getting to them first. Everyone knows he's a spy, but he's not going to
let that cramp his style. But the scientists investigating the rock find
that the Fermi may not be the only alien intelligence on Apis...
Science fiction legend Ken MacLeod returns with book two in the
Lightspeed trilogy, a gripping tale of first contact and dark
conspiracies set among the stars.
