Between the Rocks-EUROPA (Paperback)
Langue : anglais
Edité par Independently Published, 2026
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Paperback. In the asteroid belt, no one can hear your company file for bankruptcy.The asteroid belt is where companies go to make fortunes or die trying. Helios Extraction Corp is running out of time for the first option, and Joe Wong has been pushed to the edge of the solar system on what everyone knows is a Hail Mary operation-one last strike big enough to save a drowning company.The belt is a place of extremes: unimaginable wealth locked inside tumbling mountains of rock and ice, separated by stretches of nothing so vast they break minds trained for dome living. The nearest emergency response is measured in days or weeks. A pressure suit breach converts a living person into a permanent fixture of the interplanetary void in the time it takes to draw one last surprised breath. The recruitment videos show gleaming rigs silhouetted against Jupiter's banded face. The reality is a cemetery dressed up as a gold mine.The belt crew is a collection of veterans, refugees, and risk-takers who have nowhere else to go. They operate equipment held together with improvised repairs and sheer determination. Joe finds unexpected allies-people who have seen too much and stayed silent too long, who recognize in Joe's questions the same unease they have been suppressing for years.But out here, the alien mineral signatures are impossible to ignore.They pulse through the asteroids like a heartbeat, forming patterns that dwarf anything Joe found on Earth or Mars. Flipper-Joe's telepathic dog, whose abilities have continued to evolve in extraordinary ways-describes something like music heard through stone, like mathematics felt as emotion. Through their deepening neural bond, Joe experiences it too: a sense of vast, patient presence embedded in the substrate of the belt, something waiting with patience measured in geological ages.Their shared consciousness has matured into something extraordinary. Joe can see through Flipper's eyes when they concentrate. Flipper can access Joe's technical knowledge and now has strong opinions about extraction methodology. They dream together, and the dreams are increasingly strange-visions of structures and presences that neither generates consciously.When Joe's team is assigned to asteroid HX-4417-a body the surveys describe as utterly unremarkable-everything changes. The drill breaks through into empty space. Not a natural cavity. Not a gas pocket. A room. A chamber carved with geometric precision from the living rock of an asteroid that has been tumbling through the belt for millions of years.Inside, the alien mineral lines the walls in patterns that Flipper identifies immediately as intentional, structured, and alive in some fundamental sense neither of them can adequately define. The chamber is cold and dark and utterly silent, and it is the single most significant discovery in human history.Joe stands in a room that something built before dinosaurs walked on Earth.The deposits across Earth, Mars, and the belt are not isolated phenomena. They are parts of a network-nodes and connections spanning the solar system and possibly beyond, created by an intelligence operating on timescales that make human civilization look like a mayfly's afternoon. And the Visitors-Keth's people, the beings who have been sitting at Linda Wong's kitchen table in the Tulsa Dome eating snickerdoodles-are connected to this network in ways that redefine everything.The Visitors see something Joe can only glimpse through Flipper's expanded consciousness-a purpose so vast it defies human comprehension.BETWEEN THE ROCKS takes Joe Wong into the deep black, where the distances are measured in AU, the dangers in seconds, and the truth has been waiting in the hollow dark longer than anyone imagined. This item is printed on dem Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Titre
- Between the Rocks-EUROPA (Paperback)
- Auteur
- Jim Bob Pearson
- Éditeur
- Independently Published
- Année de publication
- 2026
- État de l'article
- new
- Reliure
- Paperback
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9798254210313
- Série
- Livre 3 sur 6: Between the Rocks
The asteroid belt is where companies go to make fortunes or die trying. Helios Extraction Corp is running out of time for the first option, and Joe Wong has been pushed to the edge of the solar system on what everyone knows is a Hail Mary operation—one last strike big enough to save a drowning company.
The belt is a place of extremes: unimaginable wealth locked inside tumbling mountains of rock and ice, separated by stretches of nothing so vast they break minds trained for dome living. The nearest emergency response is measured in days or weeks. A pressure suit breach converts a living person into a permanent fixture of the interplanetary void in the time it takes to draw one last surprised breath. The recruitment videos show gleaming rigs silhouetted against Jupiter's banded face. The reality is a cemetery dressed up as a gold mine.
The belt crew is a collection of veterans, refugees, and risk-takers who have nowhere else to go. They operate equipment held together with improvised repairs and sheer determination. Joe finds unexpected allies—people who have seen too much and stayed silent too long, who recognize in Joe's questions the same unease they have been suppressing for years.
But out here, the alien mineral signatures are impossible to ignore.
They pulse through the asteroids like a heartbeat, forming patterns that dwarf anything Joe found on Earth or Mars. Flipper—Joe's telepathic dog, whose abilities have continued to evolve in extraordinary ways—describes something like music heard through stone, like mathematics felt as emotion. Through their deepening neural bond, Joe experiences it too: a sense of vast, patient presence embedded in the substrate of the belt, something waiting with patience measured in geological ages.
Their shared consciousness has matured into something extraordinary. Joe can see through Flipper's eyes when they concentrate. Flipper can access Joe's technical knowledge and now has strong opinions about extraction methodology. They dream together, and the dreams are increasingly strange—visions of structures and presences that neither generates consciously.
When Joe's team is assigned to asteroid HX-4417—a body the surveys describe as utterly unremarkable—everything changes. The drill breaks through into empty space. Not a natural cavity. Not a gas pocket. A room. A chamber carved with geometric precision from the living rock of an asteroid that has been tumbling through the belt for millions of years.
Inside, the alien mineral lines the walls in patterns that Flipper identifies immediately as intentional, structured, and alive in some fundamental sense neither of them can adequately define. The chamber is cold and dark and utterly silent, and it is the single most significant discovery in human history.
Joe stands in a room that something built before dinosaurs walked on Earth.
The deposits across Earth, Mars, and the belt are not isolated phenomena. They are parts of a network—nodes and connections spanning the solar system and possibly beyond, created by an intelligence operating on timescales that make human civilization look like a mayfly's afternoon. And the Visitors—Keth's people, the beings who have been sitting at Linda Wong's kitchen table in the Tulsa Dome eating snickerdoodles—are connected to this network in ways that redefine everything.
The Visitors see something Joe can only glimpse through Flipper's expanded consciousness—a purpose so vast it defies human comprehension.
BETWEEN THE ROCKS takes Joe Wong into the deep black, where the distances are measured in AU, the dangers in seconds, and the truth has been waiting in the hollow dark longer than anyone imagined.
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