Originators

✍ Scribed by Andrew Lane

• Book ID: 115328029
• Publisher: Titan Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 141 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781785651885

✦ Synopsis

"It's plausible, unpredictable, and thoroughly entertaining" Publishers Weekly on Netherspace
It's half-way through the twenty-first century.
Contact with alien races was made forty years ago, but communication turns out to be impossible. We don't share a way of thinking or common sensory inputs with the aliens, let alone a grammar. But there is trade, done on a basis of putting things on a table and taking them off again until agreement is reached. There is no obvious pattern to the trades. Alien anti-gravity technology was traded for a bicycle tyre. Human science has become fixated on understanding alien technology - with little success. We can learn what it does and how to operate it. We don't know how it works - or how to fix it. The world may be a better place but it's no longer our own. We may be colonizing the stars, but we're dependant on inexplicable alien Faster-Than-Light technology. This is controlled by aliens we call the Gliese and is the...