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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780345491589
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 master
of science fiction Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s writing for decades. With
Time’s Eye and Sunstorm, the first two books in their acclaimed
Time Odyssey series, Clarke and his brilliant co-author Stephen
Baxter imagined a near-future in which the Firstborn seek to stop
the advance of human civilization by employing a technology
indistinguishable from magic. Their first act was the
Discontinuity, in which Earth was carved into sections from
different eras of history, restitched into a patchwork world, and
renamed Mir. Mir’s inhabitants included such notables as Alexander
the Great, Genghis Khan, and United Nations peacekeeper Bisesa
Dutt. For reasons unknown to her, Bisesa entered into communication
with an alien artifact of inscrutable purpose and godlike power-a
power that eventually returned her to Earth. There, she played an
instrumental role in humanity’s race against time to stop a
doomsday event: a massive solar storm triggered by the alien
Firstborn designed to eradicate all life from the planet. That fate
was averted at an inconceivable price. Now, twenty-seven years
later, the Firstborn are back. This time, they are pulling no
punches: They have sent a “quantum bomb.” Speeding toward Earth, it
is a device that human scientists can barely comprehend, that
cannot be stopped or destroyed-and one that will obliterate Earth.
Bisesa’s desperate quest for answers sends her first to Mars and
then to Mir, which is itself threatened with extinction. The end
seems inevitable. But as shocking new insights emerge into the
nature of the Firstborn and their chilling plans for mankind, an
unexpected ally appears from light-years away. “From the Hardcover
edition.”
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