It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven, and where evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues. Where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans, and where soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat—and it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself.
Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, and a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out.
Now he's trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. To his right is a pilot who hasn't yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call "The Angels of the Asteroids."
Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself.
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“The plot is complex, yet narrator Adam J. Rough is able to maintain a moderately steady and meticulous narration. He’s highly skilled at differentiating characters with vocal nuances. There’s no confusion, for example, between Valerie the engineered vampire and the garrulous Sengupta. Most enjoyable is the agitated biologist Daniel Brüks, who is thrown into the middle of a species war that leads him on a journey he didn’t ask for. Rough captures his frustration to a tee. As narrator, he’s constantly moving with the text, playing with language that shapes this volatile world of androids, aliens, zombies, and posthumans.”
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