The Last Gifts of the Universe

Livre broché, 194 pages

Langue : English

Publié 4 avril 2022 par Rory August.

ISBN :
978-0-578-35675-4
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4 étoiles (2 critiques)

A dying universe.

When the Home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilizations, a sea of lifeless gray planets and their ruins. What befell them is unknown. All Home knows is that they are the last civilization left in the universe, and whatever came for the others will come for them next.

A search for answers.

Scout is an Archivist tasked with scouring the dead worlds of the cosmos for their last gifts: interesting technology, cultural rituals—anything left behind that might be useful to the Home worlds and their survival. During an excavation on a lifeless planet, Scout unearths something unbelievable: a surviving message from an alien who witnessed the world-ending entity thousands of years ago.

A past unraveled.

Blyreena was once a friend, a soul mate, and a respected leader of her people, the Stelhari. At the end …

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5 étoiles

The problem with writing a review for the Last Gifts of the Universe has been where to start. Thus, I’ve spent the weeks since finishing it just telling everyone “you have to read this book! It’s so good!” Alas, while true, that’s not a very in-depth review.

One of the most gorgeous bits of this book to me was something that wasn’t immediately obvious to me, but the way it developed was so organic and just simply right for the story. This is a story narrated by Scout, who I hope you’ll fall in love with just as much as I did, but it’s not really Scout’s story, not entirely. Scout’s story is twined around Blyreena’s story as they uncover the message left by Blyreena—the last message she’d ever send out into the universe for someone to hear. It’s the story of Blyreena and her partner and their love, about …

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  • science fiction