Arrows of Time

✍ Scribed by Egan, Greg

• Book ID: 110339273
• Publisher: Night Shade Books
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Series: Orthogonal 3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781597804882

✦ Synopsis

In an alien universe where space and time play by different rules, interstellar voyages last longer for the travellers than for those they left behind. After six generations in flight, the inhabitants of the mountain-sized spacecraft the Peerless have used their borrowed time to develop advanced technology that could save their home world from annihilation. But not every traveller feels allegiance to a world they have never seen, and as tensions mount over the risks of turning the ship around and starting the long voyage home, a new complication arises: the prospect of constructing a messaging system that will give the Peerless news of its own future. While some of the crew welcome the opportunity to be warned of impending dangers - and perhaps even hear reports of the ship's triumphant return - others are convinced that knowing what lies ahead will be oppressive, and that the system will be abused. Agata longs for a chance to hear a message from the ancestors back on the home...