Starborn

Some questions are dangerous to ask out loud. Alex Harper is running out of time. A Navy veteran turned geology graduate student, he has spent three months and what remains of his academic credibility chasing a theory most of his department considers impossible. One last expedition. One last chance to find something that physics says cannot exist in nature. One evening in the high desert outside the Grand Canyon, on the verge of giving up, he finds something that will change everything - not just >What follows is a journey measured not in miles but in scales of time that dwarf human civilization - a story about deep history, first contact, and the question every > Are we worth saving? Hard science fiction in the tradition of Liu Cixin and Andy Weir, Starborn moves from the ancient geological layers of the American Southwest to the outermost edges of human understanding. It is a novel about what we are made of - literally and philosophically - and about the strange, terrifying, and ultimately hopeful discovery that we have >For readers who believe science fiction is at its best when > Starborn is the debut novel from Christian Zimmerman.

Pagina's: 455, Paperback, Independently published