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They were chosen as the best of humanity. Now they might end up being the last.Project Nomads grand vision of colonising the galaxy has shrunk to a desperate struggle to escape from an Earth racked by famine and bioterrorism. A ragtag band of scientists, farmers, and soldiers are the last of the settlers bound for mankinds first extrasolar colony on Opis, and they have one last chance to leave.Theyve done a deal. Theyve traded the Ainatio corporations instant communications research that made Nomad possible for permission to launch its ageing interstellar ship. The Asian-Pacific States, the sole threadbare superpower in a world of broken nations, are happy to let them go until an unknown informer betrays a secret: Solomon, Nomads AI, is the remnant of a banned type of artificial intelligence thats already caused millions of human deaths. They have to ground the mission. He has to be destroyed.But Solomon exists for one purpose. Hes going to take his ideal humans to Opis, even if it means launching a war against APS.As the situation on Earth spirals out of control, Captain Bridget Ingram has done a deal of her own, forty light years away in Nomad Base. The mission has new and unexpected neighbours, alien engineers whove offered to share an FTL technology thatll change the future of humanity. But they want something in exchange - protection.The aliens havent exactly told Ingram everything. But shes going to find out very soon who they need to be protected from, and why. Its too late to stay neutral and too late to abort the mission and head home. If she doesnt take the biggest gamble of her life -- one that could destroy the fledgling colony before its even begun -- the rest of the colonists will never make it to Opis.But even if they manage to leave Earth behind, Earth is far from finished with them. And the problems on Opis are just about to start.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Karen Traviss
