The New Sun - Couverture rigide

Pascarella, Antonio

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1970778008 ISBN 13 : 9781970778007

Editeur : StoneGate Publishing, LLC, 2026

Synopsis

The ground beneath your feet pulses every nine seconds, and no one can tell you why.

You've crossed the void in cryo-sleep, outrun a dying star, and buried a third of your fleet before you ever touched soil. Now you're standing on Odysseus—a temperate world that doesn't care about your training, your rank, or how far you've come. The soil shifts under thermal load. The UV spikes without warning. Somewhere on the southern ridge, dark plates of native surface material flex in response to vibration, and your instruments can't decide if it's geology or something more deliberate.

This is not a story about conquest. It's about continuity.

Commander Rafael Okoro leads the first surface settlement with a single rule: survival first, then structure, then whatever comes after. Around him, exhausted engineers argue with ecologists about foundation depth. Botanists run extremophile compatibility trials under filtered light, because releasing Earth biology into an alien ecosystem isn't bravery—it's responsibility. An ethics council chooses amaranth for the first controlled planting, not sentiment, but because it might actually grow. Architects design plazas instead of monuments, because arguments are inevitable and they might as well plan for them.

Helios, the distributed AI that guided the continuum megaships across interstellar space, now serves a quieter role: archivist, witness. It cannot decide humanity's future. It can only model every failure mode, run millions of simulations in parallel, and prepare relentlessly so that when variables align unfavorably, the burden falls on the systems rather than the people.

There will be no return missions. No second evacuation. Earth is a memory now. The bio-continuity vaults are open, species preserved in cryo-silence prepared for revival—not as relics, but as participants in a shared ecosystem that must be learned rather than conquered. Every choice carries irreversible weight. Every mistake will persist.

The New Sun closes the trilogy not with revelation or triumph, but with acceptance. Humanity does not master this world. It grows with it—slowly, imperfectly, and together.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: StoneGate Publishing, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1970778008
• ISBN 13: 9781970778007
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 406
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed 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