6/27/2023 0 Comments Firstborn stephen baxter![]() But as shocking new insights emerge about the nature of the Firstborn and their chilling plans for mankind, an unexpected ally appears from light-years away. ![]() ![]() Bisesa's desperate quest for answers sends her first to Mars and then to Mir, which is itself threatened with extinction. Though supposedly the last volume of Clarke and Baxter's Time Odyssey series (after 2005's Sunstorm), this intriguing and frustrating installment of the high-octane space opera ends with an astounding cliffhanger just as humans have begun to confront the ancient and super-powerful Firstborn, who attack any species that might become a rival. They have sent a "Q-bomb." Speeding toward Earth, it is a device that human scientists can barely comprehend, that cannot be stopped or destroyed-and that will obliterate Earth. Now, twenty-seven years later, the Firstborn are back. The Firstborn-the mysterious race of aliens who first became known to science fiction fans as the builders of the iconic black monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey-have inhabited legendary science fiction master Sir Arthur C. ![]() Categories Adult Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy ![]()
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