First published 2000
For over a millennium, humanity has searched the stars and found nothing. The universe stretches empty before them, a beautiful wasteland that belongs to humans alone. Most people consider this isolation a blessing. The expedition members approaching their destination think differently. They're investigating a mission that went silent twenty seven years earlier, leaving behind only questions and silence. The crew expected routine salvage work and standard answers. Instead, they're about to discover something that will shatter everything humanity believes about being alone in the cosmos. Their findings will force them to confront whether solitude in an empty universe is really the gift they've always imagined it to be.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, mystery, space-opera
Vibes: atmospheric, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: first-contact, found-family
448 pages · Paperback · Voyager