THE REFRACTION SHELL A Novel of First Contact
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
13.08.2026
Verlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
308
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,8 cm
Gewicht
415 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798192473559
The island isn't on any chart. It never was. That's the whole problem.
When Flight 847's instruments fail over the mid-Pacific, Captain Dana Oyelaran puts the crippled airliner down in open ocean, and nineteen survivors wash ashore on an island that satellites have photographed ten thousand times and never once seen. Ray Kelderman has spent forty years making machines tell the truth. Armed with a notebook, a bowl of water, and a sliver of steel, he starts measuring, and the measurements say something impossible: the sky above the island is a lie. The stars are in the wrong places. The sunsets run four minutes late. Something is bending light around an entire island, and it is starting to fail. They are not the first castaways here. A Spanish galleon. A vanished bomber crew. A family Cessna, fifty years gone. And watching from the treeline: the others who fell from a different sky, four hundred years ago, and have been waiting all this time for someone who knows how to fix things. What follows is a first contact unlike any other, built not on weapons or wonder but on the oldest signal two strangers can send: show me your work. Together, two shipwrecked peoples must repair an alien machine, outmaneuver a saboteur hiding among them, face down a lawful monster in a gray valley, and answer a question that has already been asked and answered once, two hundred years ago, with a verdict that broke a civilization's heart. The Refraction Shell is a hard science fiction epic about engineering, mercy, and the difference between being rescued and being home.Noch keine Bewertungen vorhanden
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