The Other Room: Book Two of The Lines We Do Not Cross - Couverture souple

Pranic, Robert G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1923707566 ISBN 13 : 9781923707566

Editeur : Cinarp Industries, 2026

Synopsis

The first room taught humanity that discovery has rules.
The second may teach it that rules are the only thing keeping catastrophe at bay.
In The Other Room, Book Two of The Lines We Do Not Cross, Robert G. Pranic intensifies the hard science fiction and thriller architecture established in Do Not Open. What began as a disciplined encounter with the unknown now widens into something more dangerous, more intimate, and far harder to contain.
Aisha already knows that first contact was never a triumph of access. It was a test of restraint. The warning left behind at the end of Book One was clear enough to terrify anyone willing to hear it: there is another room, and consent is not assumed. Yet human systems do what they always do when faced with the extraordinary. They classify, pressure, exploit, deny, and reach for ownership.
As new custodians, deeper structures, and more severe limits come into view, the struggle shifts from discovery to interference. Every signal becomes loaded. Every threshold becomes political. Every attempt to force entry risks changing the balance between observer and observed. The old comfort that humanity is studying the unknown begins to fail. A more frightening possibility emerges: the unknown has been measuring humanity all along.
Blending scientific tension with psychological pressure, ethical conflict, and escalating suspense, The Other Room is adult science fiction for readers who want more than spectacle. It is a novel about lawful contact, violated boundaries, hidden architectures, and the terrible cost of mistaking access for entitlement.
For readers of intelligent science fiction thrillers, first contact novels with moral weight, and stories where the greatest danger lies not only in what waits beyond the threshold, but in what human beings are willing to do once they believe they have found a door.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert G. Pranic was born in Melbourne, Australia, in the 1960s, in a world that looked very different from the one his fiction now interrogates. A lifelong reader, he dreamed first of becoming a paleontologist before beginning a long and successful career in information technology. Over decades of analytical work, technical writing, and high-level problem solving, another vocation steadily clarified itself: storytelling.Today, Robert G. Pranic writes across multiple fiction genres, including science fiction, thriller, detective noir, historical fiction, romance, and fantasy. His novels are marked by structural tension, emotional consequence, and a deep interest in what people do when they are placed under pressure from systems larger than themselves. Through Cinarp Industries, he continues to build a substantial independent body of work shaped by imagination, discipline, and a clear commitment to commercial, immersive fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cinarp Industries
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1923707566
• ISBN 13: 9781923707566
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 429
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg