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2110. Earth is suffering major resource shortages, and the impact of climate change is peaking, with much of the planet’s equatorial regions turned to lifeless desert and populations displaced. Colonies have been established on Mars and the Moon, but these cannot hope to sustain any more than a scant population of hundreds of citizens.
Attention has turned to the need to discover an extra-solar colony world.
European scientists, using discoveries made at CERN, have identified the means of creating a wormhole in the space-time continuum, which would allow interstellar travel. However, to do so they must first physically transport one end of the wormhole to where they want it to be, so settingup a wormhole will always rely on physical travel first of all.
A ship is sent to Mu Arae, earth-like planet discovered 10 years before. It is a journey that will take 80 years, the crew, who will eventually set up the wormhole on the planet, kept in suspended animation. But only a few years into the trip, catastrophe strikes and the ship blows up en route, killing all aboard.
2190, eighty years after the starship set out.
Gordon Kemp is a detective working in the cold case department in London. Usually he works on cases closed ten, twenty-five years earlier. Now, however, he has been assigned a murder investigation closed, unsolved, over eighty years ago. What he unearths will change history and threatens everything we know about what the powers that be have planned for Earth. The tragedy that befell the ship 80 years before is not what it seems and the past and the present are radically different to what everyone on Earth believes. We made the journey. Why has it been kept a secret?
File Under: Science Fiction [ Who wants to live forever? | Old caps | New Worlds | Believe no one ]
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- ISBN: 9780857669988
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- ISBN: 9780857669988
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September 1, 2022
In 2190, Gordon Kemp is a world-weary detective stuck working cold cases in London. His latest is the murder of an eminent research scientist from 80 years ago, in which the top suspect fled on a spaceship that everyone believes exploded. Instead, that spaceship has just landed safely on Carrasco, the first extrasolar planet to be explored by mankind, and the suspect Rima Cagnac is alive and well. Kemp's orders are straightforward, travel through a wormhole that connects their two worlds and arrest her, but everything about this clandestine case portends an interstellar storm with far-reaching consequences. The methodical pacing slowly amps up the suspense, and the wonder of discovery is paired with the horrors of greed, corruption, war crimes, invasion, and climate change. Kemp teams up with a relatable cast of characters, who struggle with feelings of being obsolete and trapped as they're immersed in a mess of major cover-ups. VERDICT Brown (Murder Most Vile) and Brooke (Harmony) offer a compelling genre blend of hard science fiction and murder mystery that will appeal to fans of Jeff VanderMeer and Peter F. Hamilton.--Andrea Dyba
Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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November 1, 2022
Set in a future that feels both fantastical and familiar, Wormhole combines the best elements from the mystery and sf genres. Gordon Kemp, a beaten-down detective demoted to ""the morgue,"" aka cold cases, lives in London and cannot imagine being anywhere else, despite his resigned semisatisfaction with his job. That changes when he and his friend and supervisor, Danni Bellini, are told to reopen a case from 80 years ago: Sebastian White's murder. Sebastian's wife, Rima, was the prime suspect, but shortly after his death, she left aboard the Strasbourg, a ship bound for planet Carrasco, light years away. Gordon's job is to find her and bring her back to London so she can stand trial. It is quickly obvious that he and Danni are not being told the whole story. Brooke and Brown do an excellent job weaving multiple stories together: an exploratory on-planet expedition going awry, Gordon's investigation on the planet's established base, and Danni's inquiry back home in London. Everything ties together neatly at the end, and readers won't help but wonder what's next.COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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