Geodesica 01: Ascent

✍ Scribed by Williams, Sean; Dix, Shane

• Book ID: 109334200
• Publisher: Ace
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 223 KB
• Series: Geodesica 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The year is 2438. Humanity has migrated to the stars in discrete waves, driven by evolving technologies and new ways of being human. The far-flung Arc Systems struggle under the yoke of their newest rulers�Exarchs from Sol, whose monopoly on faster-than-light communication gives them absolute control of a growing interstellar empire.

But humans weren�t the first to conquer the stars, and the discovery of an alien artifact promising transport between systems threatens to undermine the Exarchs� power. Revolutionary leader Melilah Awad seeks an alliance to unlock Geodesica�s secrets with VOIDship pilot Palmer Eogan, a lover she lost to the Dark more than two centuries earlier. What they find could be more dangerous than anyone--human or more than human--could imagine�