![]() I mean, it has all the elements and high-craft of a super-huge best-seller. I cannot see a universe in which this particular novel doesn't make it ultra-huge. As a thriller it succeeds on all these little life-details across the board, perfectly separate from the SFnal and Horror bits. Shannon is awesomely deep and interesting in her own right. :)Īnd you know what is perhaps the best part? We're all left wondering and wondering and wondering. Every little murder is a mystery within a mystery within a mystery, and it still has to lead to the meeting on other worlds with strange alien or time-like or nanotech or Dreamtime or Ragnarokian origins. Murder mysteries, a full complement of FBI tracking, footwork, NCIS, as well as hopping through time and multiple worlds to meet up with partners, often not in the know, murders before they happen, suspects before they ever get a glimmer of their later involvement in the events that END HUMANITY. Not just a truly excellent time-travel novel with a lot more than its fair share of surprises, twists and turns, but it's a full-on excellent modern thriller. I'm not just squeeing over the SF and Horror side of the novel. We deal with dark forests and multiple branches that loop back in on themselves but all tend to converge in truly horrific ways that are perfectly aligned to make us totally freak out. Time and multiverses work a bit differently than our run-of-the-mill time-travel stories. I think I loved all the hard-SF elements the most, second by the MANY MANY MANY shadow-worlds of time, the worldbuilding, the heavy thought put into this reality. And the means to travel through time to help solve the sticklers. And mundane murder on the world in the meantime. This just blows me away.īut right before it scares off the normals, the author backs us up and plants us firmly in a top-secret NCIS investigatory world that has time travel and deep-space spacecraft. I honestly didn't expect this novel to be quite as hard-hitting as it turned out to be.įrom the opening passages, I was plunged into a nightmare future world of nanotech and some humanity-ending Cthulhu-esq horrorshow of humans hanging from trees, undying hoards of men and women running, insane, and us, time-travelers in a spacecraft, observing our own future end creeping up on us sooner and sooner and sooner. Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.ĭetermined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. Libra-a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family-and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind. ![]() “I promise you have never read a story like this.” -Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter
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