2022/29: Shards of Earth -- Adrian Tchaikovsky

2022/29: Shards of Earth -- Adrian Tchaikovsky

Unspace was different. Things from real space – such as humans – had a tenuous existence there. It was a terrible, lonely place, until you sensed something . . . other. Then being alone became preferable to the alternative. [p. 38]

Idris Telemmier is an Intermediary, an engineered living weapon. Myrmidon Solace is a beautiful, genetically-altered battle angel. Together they turned aside an Architect -- an immense, inscrutable destroyer of worlds, one of the race? species? type? that had destroyed lost Earth. That was decades ago: now it seems that the Architects have returned, and Solace and Idris -- together with the rag-tag crew of the Vulture God -- have to convince both humans and aliens of the clear and present danger.

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