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This is an alternate cover edition for B00FJYH5R8
A para-psycho structuralist crashes into a field around Mars.
When Alenka Koie is posted to MarsShipFour, there are only three hyper-telepaths left. Operating from tanks in a crash lab, they struggle to penetrate an invisible field surrounding Mars. The field forces those who view Mars to see it as an abandoned desert world. Probes penetrating the field are also fooled. The field is controversial, perhaps even hypothetical, and the aging space station is to be shut down, ending vital experiments. But then one of the telepaths gets through the field. One of them knows who is coming. And only Alenka Koie can see who it is.
Extract: Koie reached out to touch the glass, or the stuff that was pretending to be glass, and found it colder than she had expected. The tension that seemed to hold her skull in a vice began to relax. Gone at long last were the months of being torn to shreds by the press, by religious extremists, by conspiracists, even by physicists who should have known better. Earth couldn’t be any further away. She leaned her forehead on the glass-stuff. She was free. All the lies fell away. The field existed. She could taste it on her tongue.
The Exodus Sequence: Each novelette in the Exodus Sequence is a standalone story. They don’t have to be read in order. They are not in any way connected like chapters in a book. They vary in style and character, time and place. However, the mystery unfolds as the sequence progresses, hence the numbering. To follow this unfolding, the sequence is best read in order.
A novelette is, by definition, longer than a short story but not as long as a novella.
A para-psycho structuralist crashes into a field around Mars.
When Alenka Koie is posted to MarsShipFour, there are only three hyper-telepaths left. Operating from tanks in a crash lab, they struggle to penetrate an invisible field surrounding Mars. The field forces those who view Mars to see it as an abandoned desert world. Probes penetrating the field are also fooled. The field is controversial, perhaps even hypothetical, and the aging space station is to be shut down, ending vital experiments. But then one of the telepaths gets through the field. One of them knows who is coming. And only Alenka Koie can see who it is.
Extract: Koie reached out to touch the glass, or the stuff that was pretending to be glass, and found it colder than she had expected. The tension that seemed to hold her skull in a vice began to relax. Gone at long last were the months of being torn to shreds by the press, by religious extremists, by conspiracists, even by physicists who should have known better. Earth couldn’t be any further away. She leaned her forehead on the glass-stuff. She was free. All the lies fell away. The field existed. She could taste it on her tongue.
The Exodus Sequence: Each novelette in the Exodus Sequence is a standalone story. They don’t have to be read in order. They are not in any way connected like chapters in a book. They vary in style and character, time and place. However, the mystery unfolds as the sequence progresses, hence the numbering. To follow this unfolding, the sequence is best read in order.
A novelette is, by definition, longer than a short story but not as long as a novella.