For the First Time, Again

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Discover history’s biggest secret . . .For millennia an unbroken line of alien mothers and daughters have secretly been shepherding human technology towards the stars.Twelve-year-old Aster is the last of this line.But the loss of her mother in early life means she knows nothing of her alien heritage – believing she is just an ordinary young girl.Not only is she about to discover how wrong she is – but she’ll also learn she’s not the only alien on Earth: others are here to stop her.Yet with revelation comes recovery.Now Aster has a purpose.Her life, the future of her speciesand that of all life on Earth is at stake.She’s history’s biggest secret.But can she save the future?’Alt-history with a difference’ GUARDIAN’There’s real cleverness at work here’ THE TIMES

Additional information

Weight 0.26 kg
Dimensions 3 × 13 × 19.6 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

384

Publisher

Year Published

2023-10-12

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1405945575

About The Author

Sylvain Neuvel has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago. He is an amateur robotics enthusiast and lifelong fan of all things science fiction. He is the author of two critically-acclaimed series: Themis Files novels: Sleeping Giants, Waking Gods and Only Human, and Take Them To the Stars: A History of What Comes Next, and Until the Last of Me. He lives in Montreal.

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Praise for Take Them To The Stars series

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Sylvain Neuvel proves once again he deserves the title of the hottest new SF writer of the 21st century