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Shards of Earth

Adrian Tchaikovsky

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#628 of 8,085 books · #132 in Science Fiction

Won the BSFA Award for Best Novel (2021). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

Shards of Earth won the Arthur C. Clarke award. The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . . Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared—and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, fifty years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space. It's clearly the work of the Architects—but are they returning? And if so, why? Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy hunting for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, that many would kill to obtain.

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Publisher
Tor
ISBN-13
9780316705820
Topics
Space operaWar aftermathAlien contactIdentity and enhancementSurvival of humanity

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