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Informationen zum Autor “Jack Campbell” is the pen name of John G. Hemry, whose books have been translated into fifteen languages and sold four million copies worldwide. He is a retired naval officer who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis before serving with the surface fleet and in a variety of other assignments. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Fleet series and The Lost Stars series, as well as the Stark’s War, Paul Sinclair, and Pillars of Reality series. He lives with his indomitable wife and three children in Maryland. Klappentext "Earth, 2180. Genetically engineered with partly-alien DNA, Lieutenant Selene Genji is different than ordinary humans. ... She's spent her life trying to overcome society's prejudice by serving in the Unified Fleet as Earth's international order collapses into war. Genji is stationed on a ship in orbit when humanity's hatreds and factions on the planet reach a boiling point, and she witnesses the utter annihilation of Earth. When the massive forces unleashed by Earth's death warp space and time to hurl her forty years into the past, Genji is given a chance to try to change the future and save Earth--starting with the alien first contact only she knows will soon occur. Earth, 2140. Lieutenant Kayl Owen's ship is on a routine patrol when a piece of spacecraft wreckage appears out of nowhere. To his shock, there is a survivor on board: Selene Genji. Once her strange heritage is discovered, though, it soon becomes clear that Genji is a problem Earth Guard command wants to dispose of--quietly. Learning the horrifying truth, Owen helps her escape and joins her mission. Together, they have a chance to change the fate of an Earth doomed to die in 2180"-- Leseprobe Chapter 1 12 June 2180 As the weapon detonated on the surface of the Earth, a collective, wordless moan of despair sounded from the crew of the Unified Fleet heavy cruiser Pyrenees in orbit near the Moon. Lieutenant Selene Genji stared, unable to accept what she was seeing, as the initial burst of weird, hideous light expanded with horrible speed, growing and racing across the surface of the planet. Oceans instantly evaporated, the surfaces of continents vanishing, billions dying in the blink of an eye as the weapon consumed all of human history and art and hope. The Spear of Humanity had won. Earth had been "cleansed," destroyed in the name of saving it. "We're getting odd readings on all of our instruments." The voice of the weapons officer sounded strange, choked by grief. "Light is being bent," another officer gasped. "Like space-time is being distorted. Energy release is off every scale we've got." Boring beneath the surface, the destruction reached Earth's core. What remained of the planet exploded. In the seconds remaining to her, Genji watched the enormous oncoming shock wave, part of her wondering at how the image warped mysteriously in places. More free quarks than the universe had seen since its birth, invisible to the human eye, and the remnants of the outer atmosphere driven outward by inconceivable energy, the death throes of Earth formed a tsunami of brilliant blue shading into ultraviolet as the explosion expanded at incredible velocity. Earth's dying moment was beautiful in a very strange and extremely frightening way. She only had time to form two words in her mind before the shock wave hit. If only . . . 6 February 2140 Ninety-nine watches out of every hundred were boring and monotonous, and often the one hundredth one was as well. Lieutenant Kayl Owen realized that he had managed to snag the watch with something "interesting" happening. Hazards to navigation were not supposed to pop up out of nowhere. That sort of thing could happen on Earth, but not in space, not where the instruments aboard the Earth Guard ship Vigilant co...
