By C.A. Higgins
NAMED the best BOOKS OF THE 12 months BY BUZZFEED AND KIRKUS REVIEWS • With deeply relocating human drama, nail-biting suspense—and daring hypothesis knowledgeable through a level in physics—C. A. Higgins spins a riveting technology fiction debut bound to catapult readers past their expectations.
Serving aboard the Ananke, an experimental army spacecraft introduced via the ruthless association that ideas Earth and its sunlight approach, laptop scientist Althea has confirmed an excessive emotional bond—not with any of her crewmates, yet with the ship’s digital structures, which communicate extra deeply to her analytical brain than human emotions do. but if a couple of fugitive terrorists achieve entry to the Ananke, Althea needs to draw upon her middle and soul for the energy to protect her loved ship.
whereas one of many saboteurs is still at huge someplace on board, his captured partner—the enigmatic Ivan—may turn out to be extra harmful. The perversely interesting legal whose silver tongue is his greatest weapon has lengthy refrained from the experts’ so much relentless surveillance—and stored the reality approximately his tools and explanations good hidden.
because the ship’s platforms start to malfunction and the claustrophobic surroundings is more and more poisoned through mistrust and suspicion, it falls to Althea to penetrate the prisoner’s layers of intrigue and deception ahead of all is misplaced. but if the real nature of Ivan’s challenge is uncovered, it is going to switch Althea forever—if it doesn’t kill her first.
Praise for Lightless
“Gripping . . . sci-fi flavored with a touch of thriller.”—New York Daily News
“[A] measured, wonderful science-fiction debut [that is] extra mental mystery . . . contained, disciplined, annoying . . . The plot is compulsive. . . . Lightless is the 1st of a deliberate sequence, and also you can’t aid looking ahead to studying what’s next.”—The long island Times
“Lightless is filled with suspense and enjoyable as hell to read.”—BuzzFeed
“Absolutely outstanding . . . this can be technological know-how fiction because it is intended to be performed: clinical thoughts wedded to and equipped upon human ideals.”—Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling writer of the October Daye series
“The stakes during this tale are high—life and loss of life, uprising and betrayal—and debut novelist Higgins regularly ratchets up the stress. . . . A suspenseful, emotional tale that asks lots of gigantic questions about identification and freedom, this can be a debut to not be missed.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A taut, suspenseful read.”—Tech Times
“Lightless is an workout in lighting fixtures a truly gradual fuse and development the strain to an insufferable pitch whereas making us wager simply how apocalyptic the last word explosion could be. . . . it's a high-wire act, a wonderment, and an outstanding accomplishment from a reputation we’ll be seeing again.”—Sci Fi
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It was once simply possible that the picture used to be from ahead of the put in surveillance and were good maintained, and the boy within the photograph was once now not Matthew Gale, and models have been coincidentally comparable adequate to be fallacious for a more moderen 12 months. that will be thousands of years in the past at the internal planets, yet from the glance of the sky, Althea idea this photograph should have been taken on an outer moon, and if that was once the case, it can be a number of hundred years prior to the most recent attainable date for the interior planets— “The desktop says among twenty and thirty years,” Domitian acknowledged. Deeper strains have been showing on his brow, an indication of his annoyance. “So that's very unlikely. ” “The Ananke has to be proposing a fake unfavourable somehow,” Althea muttered, relocating to take regulate of the pc again from Domitian, “misinterpreting the implications being despatched from Earth—I don’t know the way, yet I bet…” “No, don’t. ” Domitian dropped his hand on her shoulder. “It’s now not worthy it slow. I’ll converse with Earth at once and feature them run the photo themselves rather than doing it during the desktop. ” “Are you convinced? ” “I’m sure,” stated Domitian. “You concentrating on this symptom won’t repair the matter. move paintings at the computing device. ” Althea lingered a second longer, continually unwilling to depart an issue unsolved. “Go,” Domitian acknowledged. “I have to watch those recordings. ” He smiled faintly at her as though he knew why she used to be hesitant, and Althea eventually left. simply as she opened the doorways to the Ananke’s lengthy spiraling hallway, the holographic terminal within the hallway nearest to the docking bay, with out being touched, switched on and began to glow. Althea enable the doorways shut at the back of her and went to it to determine what used to be incorrect, yet by the point she reached it, it had long past darkish and quiet. — “The journey to Eris is a month long,” stated Ivan. “Do you must pay attention the main points of that, too? ” “Only if whatever occurred in the course of it,” acknowledged Ida. “No,” Ivan stated, and Ida spared a look on the polygraph. fact, it acknowledged, yet after all it have been asserting that this whole time. “What do you do in the course of these journeys? ” she requested, leaning ahead onto the cool brushed metal of the desk. “To amuse yourselves. You and Mattie needs to get very bored. ” “We talk,” Ivan stated. “We play video games. We creatively reprogram our ship’s desktop. no matter what we expect will move the time. occasionally I inform Mattie tales. ” It was once an odd element, a being concerned one. Ida questioned if Ivan discovered how a lot of himself he had published with that tiny little aspect. He needed to be aware of, she notion. So why had he informed her? Scheherazade, she remembered. The nickname in parting. A revealing aspect, definitely, yet instructed to her in protection, out of necessity. Leontios Ivanov did not anything accidentally. “You are an outstanding storyteller,” acknowledged Ida. Ivan may comprehend her that means completely, she knew; the digicam could leave out it fullyyt. “What different types of tales do you inform? ” Ivan leaned again in his chair. She famous how he nonetheless didn't cringe whilst he touched the potentially chilly again of the chair along with his naked pores and skin.