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The Left Behind
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Series: Left Behind, Book 1
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
They spent two years learning we existed. We spent two years learning to be afraid of the answer.
In 2027, a volunteer astronomer working the night shift finds an object where nothing should be. It isn't tumbling like it should. It isn't slowing down like it should. And by the time the world agrees on what it's looking at, it's already changing course -- toward Earth.
Two years of Panic Spring, denial, and a species quietly rehearsing for contact follow. Then the object stops broadcasting silence and starts broadcasting data -- a payload built to teach itself to whatever machine intelligence finds it, addressed, in eighty-one careful words, to the people of Earth.
Dr. Amara SolÃs buried an impossible result eleven years ago and spent a decade being the scientist who was wrong. She is about to find out she wasn't.
Because the travelers arriving after 47 million years apart aren't visitors. They're family -- the branch of an ancient migration that made it, coming back for the branch that was left behind. And they need something only a mortal, imperfect, endlessly dying species can still provide.
THE LEFT BEHIND is a first-contact novel about deep time, deep ancestry, and the price of never being wrong again -- for readers of Project Hail Mary, Children of Time, and The Three-Body Problem.
Book One of a planned four-book series.
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