"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
