Kim Miller
Something is out there, racing into Earth's orbit, and it's not what it should be. When astronauts go to investigate a celestial visitor that they think of as an asteroid, they find markings that suggest engineering, and a doorway into the unexpected. The asteroid has been hollowed out and spread through several chambers are complete cities, the product of an earlier civilisation that has since gone. But worse is to come, at the end of the final chamber there is no end. The 300 km long asteroid has a tunnel into an infinite and unknown dimension.
The novel starts with a rapid descent into weirdness as the asteroid is explored. It was obviously the home to an advanced civilisation that not only seems to have been human, but also from our own far future. Something has blown it out of their own time and space and brought it back into our present.
The centre of the novel is taken up with the political intrigue of three nations, America, Russia and China, as they vie for information and control. But there are also reports of ethereal beings, ghosts of the asteroid's past, that are keeping watch over the interlopers. And through reading the literature found in the libraries of the asteroid they find that Earth is soon to undergo a nuclear war that leaves the planet devastated.
A device is manufactured that allows them to fly between the chambers and beyond, down the tunnel and into the infinite hallway. But somewhere down there are the ones who once lived in the asteroid's cities, and they are not happy.
This is a complex story and the complexity is only just building up at the halfway point. As the conflicts between the Earthlings in the cities, and the faction fighting between the 'Futurelings' somewhere along the infinite hallway escalate, the story becomes a race into destruction. It becomes totally bonkers as every collides with everything else and whatever can be blown apart is blown apart.
And suddenly it's over. The characters are scattered into different timelines, different histories, different realities. The novel closes with a very human touch that leaves the reader with a greater sense of a future than is probably being experienced by the characters themselves.
Something is out there, racing into Earth's orbit, and it's not what it should be. When astronauts go to investigate a celestial visitor that they think of as an asteroid, they find markings that suggest engineering, and a doorway into the unexpected. The asteroid has been hollowed out and spread through several chambers are complete cities, the product of an earlier civilisation that has since gone. But worse is to come, at the end of the final chamber there is no end. The 300 km long asteroid has a tunnel into an infinite and unknown dimension.
The novel starts with a rapid descent into weirdness as the asteroid is explored. It was obviously the home to an advanced civilisation that not only seems to have been human, but also from our own far future. Something has blown it out of their own time and space and brought it back into our present.
The centre of the novel is taken up with the political intrigue of three nations, America, Russia and China, as they vie for information and control. But there are also reports of ethereal beings, ghosts of the asteroid's past, that are keeping watch over the interlopers. And through reading the literature found in the libraries of the asteroid they find that Earth is soon to undergo a nuclear war that leaves the planet devastated.
A device is manufactured that allows them to fly between the chambers and beyond, down the tunnel and into the infinite hallway. But somewhere down there are the ones who once lived in the asteroid's cities, and they are not happy.
This is a complex story and the complexity is only just building up at the halfway point. As the conflicts between the Earthlings in the cities, and the faction fighting between the 'Futurelings' somewhere along the infinite hallway escalate, the story becomes a race into destruction. It becomes totally bonkers as every collides with everything else and whatever can be blown apart is blown apart.
And suddenly it's over. The characters are scattered into different timelines, different histories, different realities. The novel closes with a very human touch that leaves the reader with a greater sense of a future than is probably being experienced by the characters themselves.