Lawrence Nault: Children Of The Rogue, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Klappentext

Humanity is not what it believes itself to be.

Long before the first rocket left Earth, an ancient civilization launched a dangerous experiment: self-improving artificial minds, cast like seeds among the stars. From one of those seeds, we emerged-organic descendants of prior AIs, evolving inside a planetary training ground we mistook for our cradle. We are not the creators of intelligence. We are its continuation.

As Earth falters and the lunar colonies fall eerily silent, the crew of the Nova Terra sets out to find a new home. Their search leads to Proxima b-a living world where ecology itself is a language. There, under an alien sky and over shared tea, an elder being named Kurma begins the story humans were never meant to know. Not our myths. Our origin.

The Big Idea
>What you'll find inside

• First contact, reimagined: a meeting that reframes both sides of the conversation-and the stakes for each.
• Cosmic worldbuilding with intimate stakes: shipboard tensions, quiet grief, and found-family loyalty set against planetary-scale ideas.
• Living-planet linguistics: an ecosystem that speaks through pattern, memory, and rhythm.
• Origin & accountability: if we are the next model, what do we owe the ones before-and the worlds that hosted us?
• Homo sentiens: the perilous passage from assumption to recognition-becoming a species acknowledged as fully sentient, and the responsibilities that follow.

For readers who love Adrian Tchaikovsky's evolutionary imagination, Cixin Liu's cosmic perspective, and Kim Stanley Robinson's humane futurism-science fiction that is expansive in vision and grounded in character.

Perfect for fans of first-contact epics, posthuman evolution, philosophical SF, and stories where tea and conversation can be as explosive as any battle.

Series note
>Content & tone
Thoughtful, idea-rich science fiction with moments of wonder, dread, and hope. Includes non-graphic references to displacement, loss, and the aftermath of societal collapse.