S E Mulholland

Blindspot (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the year 5124, the Tengri system is the farthest-flung and most isolated of Earth's six colonies. With the distance from their nearest neighbor measured in centuries, Tengrans have spent more than two thousand years in safe isolation, terraforming the system's hostile planet and engineering soaring orbital habitats to fill the space above it.

Until a routine calibration procedure in one of the Space Traffic Control cameras turns up a star where no star should be.

Nikolai Ogorodov, senior-most captain in Tengri's tiny Navy, is facing the grim prospect that he could retire still waiting for something actually exciting to happen, when word comes in that Traffic Control has spotted the deceleration flare of a ship's drive. It's a ship - and a drive - unlike anything Tengri has seen before, and Nikolai is dispatched to determine if the newcomers are a threat to the long-standing peace.

Urthe Agajanian is an under-funded and over-caffeinated young researcher on Orbital Island Peridot. With the Tengri system sporting only the barest, tantalizing remnants of a long-departed alien presence, it's hardly surprising that Urthe is possibly the system's only working xeno-technologist. When a ship turns up with a delegation claiming to be actual aliens, come to trade technology with humanity, Urthe's obscure specialty is suddenly, spectacularly relevant.

Urthe and Nik approach the situation from vastly different backgrounds, each holding a different, incomplete picture of the crisis facing their home. Yet they will both find themselves making decisions that could impact the survival not just of Tengri but of humanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: S E Mulholland
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780473508883
• Artikelnr.: 58472598

Autorenporträt

I started writing fiction as a way to procrastinate working on my dissertation. A PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics isn't a bad place to start when you're building a science fiction universe - if nothing else, you learn to deal with your readers demanding a certain level of scientific rigor. But a universe is a big place; no one person knows enough to get the details right for all of it. I fell back on what had been drummed into me at University: check your work; get peer review.

That is, I hit up friends and acquaintances (and the occasional bemused docent), with expertise both academic and practical, and asked them to check my work. Often these discussions went beyond mere technical correction, opening whole new avenues of exploration by sharing insights only available after years or decades spent down very particular rabbit holes.

I'm especially interested in the role of time. The sorts of big events you find in SF novels tend to play out on timescales of decades, centuries, or even millennia. This is something we can see in our own history: the effects of conquest and colonisation (European, Arab, Greek, Persian, Mongol, etc.) are still playing out, all around the globe, centuries later.

New Zealand, where I live, is on the edge of the map, the last habitable place on earth to be colonised by humans. From this periphery I look up and out, imagining a possible future of exploration and colonisation where distance is measured in light years and the travel time is measured in centuries.