Edward M. Lerner - Böcker

"Holy crap, this is a great book."—Sci Fi Saturday Night"Solid sci-fi outing from Lerner"—Publishers Weekly“Here’s an author you definitely need to check out.”—Asimov’s Science FictionOn the Moon’s far side, shielded from Earth’s radio cacophony, Americans are building a radio-astronomy observatory. Russians sift the dust of a lunar “sea” for helium-3 to run future fusion reactors. Commercial robots, remotely operated from Earth, roam the Moon’s near side in a hunt for mineral wealth. Why chase distant asteroids for precious metals? Onetime asteroids must lie close beneath the much-bombarded lunar surface.Then a prospecting robot encounters a desiccated, spacesuited figure. An alien figure …. Americans from the lunar observatory investigate. Near the original find, underground, they discover an alien installation. Lunar Russians, realizing that the Americans are up to something clandestine, send their own small team. Each group distrusts the other … even before the fatal “accidents” begin. By the time anyone suspects what ancient evil they have awakened, it may be too late—For everyone on Earth, too.

As though landing people safely on Mars weren't daunting enough ...The Space Race of the Sixties, at the height of the Cold War, had been nail-biting—until the Soviet Union forfeited.In the thirties—amid a second Cold War—China is not about to lose the race to Mars. Nor is the United States. Nor, quite the wildcard, is asecretive cabal drawn from among the world's multi-billionaires. All of them are scrambling to launch deep-space missions on a schedule that makes the Sixtiescontest appear lackadaisical.This competition could only continue on the Red Planet.More treacherous still? The rivalries, resentments, and distrust that simmer just beneath the surface within each expedition.More difficult yet? Survival on that arid, radiation-drenched, all-but-airless, planet.These challenges have somehow fallen into the lap of NASA engineer—and reluctant astronaut—Xander Hopkins.But the thorniest problem of all? The existential quandary for which neither training nor experience has prepared Xander? Making sense of the seemingly unstoppable plague that has already killed many on Mars, and seems poised to devastate all life on another planet.Earth.