Steal Across the Sky
The aliens appeared one day, built a base on the moon, and put an ad on the internet:“We are an alien race you may call the Atoners. Ten thousand years ago we wronged humanity profoundly. We cannot undo what has been done, but we wish humanity to understand it. Therefore we request twenty-one...
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The aliens appeared one day, built a base on the moon, and put an ad on the internet:“We are an alien race you may call the Atoners. Ten thousand years ago we wronged humanity profoundly. We cannot undo what has been done, but we wish humanity to understand it. Therefore we request twenty-one volunteers to visit seven planets to Witness for us. We will convey each volunteer there and back in complete safety. Volunteers must speak English. Send requests for electronic applications to witness@Atoners.com."At first, everyone thought it was a joke. But it wasn’t.This is the story of three of those volunteers, and what they found on Kular A and Kular B.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780765359568 (0765359561)
Publish date: February 2nd 2010
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Pages no: 351
Edition language: English
OK-the one sentence version of this book is that some aliens thousands of years ago altered our genes and kidnapped some humans and repopulated a few other planets with them in sort of a 'double-blind' study where some were left with the gene that allowed us to communicate with the recently deceased...
You don't know for sure what's going on here! There are strange things in the universe!"Cam O'Kane's right, there are plenty of unknowns in the universe, and I'll add Steal Across the Sky to the list of mysteries. The book disappointed me. Nancy Kress has written books on writing fiction. She's won ...
The novel was a study of how humans can be self-serving while appearing self-sacrificing, while concurrently serving as a foil for the same theme for in an alien race. It was slow but it had great ideas. The big idea was strong enough to maintain tension throughout. Fairly strong characters, too. W...
I don't know, I don't know... The background story is, of course, just my cup of tea: First contact (yay!) turns out to be second contact (oooh!) - the aliens have been here before, and they feel the need to atone for some wrong they did mankind thousands of years ago. So far, so awesome. They sele...
Despite some annoying characters, this was an exciting ride to other planets and then back for the aftermath. Mysterious impervious aliens have come to atone for something - a contest sends witnesses to a series of planets in order to let them learn what it is the Atoners had done to the human race...
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