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Baxter, Stephen, 1957-

Creation node / Stephen Baxter. - 2023 - 442 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

In the year 2255, of all the sentient beings in her universe, it was a woman named Salma, twenty years old, who was the first fully to see the object called Planet Nine. See with her own eyes, albeit moderated by her ship's instruments. If not to recognise what it was, not yet. Not that the object turned out to be a planet, or the 'ninth' of anything. Briefly thought to be a black hole, it suddenly changes, expands and sends a message. There is something waiting on its service. Something not quite human. As the ramifications of this event spread across the fracturing elements of humanity, it is clear that the small crew on the spot are at the centre of the most dramatic discovery in history. But theirs is not the only inexplicable event happening - impossibly, at exactly the same moment, a quasar appeared twenty-five thousand light years away, and now is heating up the solar system.

ISBN: 9781473228962 1473228964 9781473228955 1473228956

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC3C5888 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 021128847 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Interstellar communication--Fiction.
Life on other planets--Fiction.
Quasars--Fiction.
Space flight--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Outer space--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Science fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 823.92