The Knife and the Serpent

di Tim Pratt (Autore)

Angry Robot, 2024

From Hugo Award winning author Tim Pratt comes a new, high-concept space opera, exploring technology, family and the price we pay to follow our destiny, perfect for fans of Peter F. Hamilton and Adrian Tchaikovsky. After her grandmother is murdered in a home invasion, Tamsin Culver leaves her cushy programming job in San Francisco and returns to her Midwestern hometown to settle the estate. What she doesn’t expect is to find out her grandmother’s life-changing secret: She’s not an Earth native, but an exile from another level of the Nigh-Space continuum, an adjacent reality with technology far more advanced than ours. What’s more, her grandmother ruled there as an oligarch, meaning Tamsin is the heir to vast wealth only accessible by someone from her bloodline... but the enemies who tried to exterminate her family won’t be happy to see her return. Back in the Bay Area, grad student Glenn makes a startling discovery about his girlfriend Vivy. She’s a secret agent for the Interventionists: an interdimensional organisation devoted to protecting the inhabitants of Nigh-Space from those trying to take advantage of less-developed worlds. When she lands in trouble, Glenn finds himself on a sapient starship in a distant level of the continuum, racing to save her. But when Glenn and Vivy’s plans clash with Tamsin’s, and secret connections among them all are revealed, their situation becomes catastrophically complicated. It’s a princess of Nigh-Space versus a champion of Nigh-Space in a reality-spanning adventure that ranges from alien planets to mysterious space stations to Bay Area bars, with starship battles, cyborg augmentation, abductions, snark, betrayal, and fallout both nuclear and emotional. Meanwhile, back in the Bay Area, a grad student named Glenn discovers his girlfriend Vivy is secretly an agent of an interdimensional organization devoted to promoting freedom and protecting the denizens of Nigh-Space: the Interventionists. When she gets in trouble, Glenn is drawn to a distant level of Nigh-Space, where solar parasites poison star systems and hostile aliens seek to destroy access to other planes. He meets up with Vivy’s friend, a sapient starship named The Wreck of the Edmund Pevensie (“Call me Eddie”), and they join forces to save her. Glenn and Vivy naturally have to work out some relationship issues, like her lying to him about a) her real job and b) the entire nature of reality. It’s not easy being in love with a champion of Nigh- Space, but it’s never dull.

• Autore: Tim Pratt
• Anno edizione: 2024
• Editore: Angry Robot
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9781915202819

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