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The Dark Between Stars: When the Veyari Came
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 2047, astronomers detect an impossible object entering the solar system from the direction of Gliese 667. Thirty kilometers long and slowing under its own power, it can only mean one thing: Humanity is no longer alone.Then the object begins transmitting human voices.Thousands of them.Men, women, and children reciting names, memories, and final messages-except the people speaking are still alive on Earth. Some haven't even been born.The exploration vessel Aegis is dispatched beyond Neptune to intercept the object before it reaches Earth. Commander Elias Rourke and astrobiologist Dr. Elena Varela expect to encounter humanity's first extraterrestrial spacecraft.Instead, they find something alive.The enormous vessel is a biological organism grown to survive the darkness between stars. Inside its labyrinthine corridors lie the preserved remains of civilizations harvested across the galaxy-and millions of empty chambers waiting for their next occupants.Their creators are the Veyari, an ancient parasitic species incapable of reproducing without intelligent hosts. They do not conquer civilizations.They infiltrate them.They implant themselves inside living bodies, absorb their memories and personalities, and eventually replace them so perfectly that husbands cannot recognize infected wives, mothers cannot distinguish their real children from copies, and humanity can no longer tell who is human.Earth has been selected as their next breeding world.But when Elena discovers Veyari genetic material hidden within human DNA, the nightmare becomes far worse.They have been here before.Something happened on Earth thousands of years ago-something deliberately erased from human history. Some people alive today may already carry the legacy of that first visitation.And the vessel approaching Earth isn't an invasion fleet.It's running from one.Something destroyed the Veyari civilization around Gliese 667. Something powerful enough to terrify a species that has harvested worlds for millions of years.Now the Veyari are fleeing toward Earth.And whatever hunts them through the darkness between stars is following.First contact has begun.The harvest is coming.And humanity may soon discover that the monsters arriving at Earth aren't the ones we should fear m
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