Firefall

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGO AND LOCUS AWARDS

By: Peter Watts

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Paperback | 13 January 2017

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768 Pages

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Firefall is the omnibus edition of the novels Blindsight and Echopraxia.

February 13, 2082, First Contact. Sixty-two thousand objects of unknown origin plunge into Earth's atmosphere – a perfect grid of falling stars screaming across the radio spectrum as they burn. Not even ashes reach the ground. Three hundred and sixty degrees of global surveillance: something just took a snapshot. And then... nothing. But from deep space, whispers. Something out there talks – but not to us.

Two ships, Theseus and the Crown of Thorns, are launched to discover the origin of Earth's visitation, one bound for the outer dark of the Kuiper Belt, the other for the heart of the Solar System. Their crews can barely be called human, what they will face certainly can't.

About the Author

Peter Watts is a science fiction writer and a reformed marine-mammal biologist. He is the author of the Rifters trilogy, a winner of the Aurora, Hugo and Shirley Jackson awards and a Locus, Sturgeon and Campbell award nominee. Watts lives in Toronto.

Industry Reviews

'A tour de force' Charles Stross.
'Remarkable' Gene Wolfe.
'Exhilarating, up-to-date science fiction' New York Times.
'State of the art. Smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one' Neal Ascher.
'If you read one SF novel this year, read this one' Richard Morgan.
'Brilliant and merciless' SFX.

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