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72 Hours: Beyond the Horizon of the Impossible
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 23 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
72 Hours: Beyond the Horizon of the Impossible
by Roberto Delucchi
The sky is going to go out. Only a handful of people know when.
High on the summit of the Atacama Desert, where the largest telescope ever built watches the clearest skies on Earth, two young astronomers find a point of light that should not exist: a rogue planet, moving backwards through the galaxy, on a silent course towards the Sun.
They call it the Massive Disturbance Object. The world will come to call it the Destroyer.
What begins as the discovery of a lifetime becomes the most dangerous secret in history. Sealed inside the steel and glass of the Beast, a small team of scientists uncovers a truth their governments would rather bury - that the planet's passage will plunge the world into seventy-two hours of total darkness, and that something stranger still is being dragged along in its wake. As panic spreads, as prophets and influencers sell salvation and the military tightens its grip, the team faces an impossible choice: warn a world that may tear itself apart, or keep silent and let it freeze in ignorance.
Set in a near-future Chile already reeling from social upheaval and catastrophe, 72 Hours: Beyond the Horizon of the Impossible is a grounded, deeply human work of science fiction about discovery and denial, the loneliness of knowing, and the fragile courage of the few who keep the lights on when the heavens themselves begin to fail.
Born from the real world of the planet's greatest observatory, this is hard-edged speculative fiction for readers who like their apocalypse rooted in real places, real instruments - and impossibly real stakes.
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