![]() ![]() You send a pacifist warrior whose career-defining moment was an act of treason. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultra-sound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a linguist with multiple personalities carved surgically into her brain. ![]() “Who you do send to meet the alien when the alien doesn't want to meet? The crew is unlike any other you’ve ever met in a story, I guarantee you that think of strange and multiply it tenfold. Later on, as the third wave, Theseus, a ship captained by an AI and having a human (and not only) crew is sent to investigate further. Some probes are sent to investigate a signal apparently coming from Burns-Caulfield comet, located in the Kuiper Belt. The quest in pursuing why/who/what sent them begins. Humanity is caught off guard and reactions are all over the spectrum. : Earth is surrounded by 65,000 alien objects, named Fireflies which after a little while, burned in atmosphere. But this duology was the most dense and tough I had read so far. I’ve had my fair share of sci-fi works, with mind-blowing ideas and, at times, with worlds and concepts hard to imagine. Note: links inserted in the review contain minor spoilers. For fans of this series, fresh, just out of the oven: ![]()
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