| Title | : | Dark Secret |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Edward M. Lerner |
| Release | : | 2024-09-04 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Books |
| Size | : | 1144202 |
| Cosmologically speaking, Earth's luck ran out in an eye blink. In another million years or so, humanity could have had the technology to shield its cradle from an imminent gamma-ray burst. Or humans might already have spread out among the stars--safe, as a species, from any less-than-galactic-scale disaster. Too bad we didn't get that million years. And then what? Where beyond the Solar System is safe? More importantly, what is the price of survival? _"I found Dark Secret to be a refreshingly hopeful vision; the important questions it raised--frightening and disturbing as they may be--are ones we ignore at our own peril ... I heartily recommend Ed Lerner's_ Dark Secret." --Tangent Online _"Gamma-ray bursters are a real, frightful danger, and Edward M. Lerner captures the awful truth of this in a quick, startling story that--I warn you!--will be hard to put down."_ --Gregory Benford, Nebula Award-winning author of _Timescape_ _"Gripping. Impossible to put down."_ --Jack McDevitt, Nebula Award-winning author of _The Devil's Eye_ "Dark Secret_ is a unique tale of catastrophe and survival on multiple levels, gripping and harrowing yet ultimately inspiring. Lerner shows what it might really be like to be forced from an out-of-control frying pan into a far worse fire, and how humanity might endure even if what the refugees bring with them is worse than what they find."_ --Stanley Schmidt, author of _Argonaut_ _"Leave it to Edward M. Lerner to take a notion, run with it, squeeze every ramification out of it, and put it altogether in an irresistible page-turner. _Dark Secret_ is a crackerjack novel--hard science fiction at its best."_ --Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of _Red Planet Blues_ _"With _Dark Secret_ Lerner has crafted a compelling tale of survival of the human race following the cataclysmic destruction of Earth. The story turns on the conflicts of personality, politics, conflicting theories of governance, and the nurture/nature conundrum and ends with an amazing and satisfying conclusion._ _"Lerner handles his tale of power and relationships, friendship and loss, with sensitivity, bringing each principal character and their motivations to light while telling an entertaining story. A must read."_ --Bud Sparhawk, author of _Vixen_ _"This sci-fi novel can be many things to many readers--dark psychological drama, extrapolative science, post-apocalyptic tale, refined space opera--but entertaining will be all their common denominators. Well done, Mr. Lerner!"_ --Steven M. Moore, author of _The Chaos Chronicles_ |
