03281cam a2200505 i 4500 540873392 TxAuBib 20211209120000.0 210629s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019471018 9781250762849 hardcover $29.99 1250762847 hardcover $29.99 TxAuBib rda Paolini, Christopher. To sleep in a sea of stars / Christopher Paolini. First U.S. Edition: September 2020. New York : Tor, published by Tom Doherty Associates, 2020. 2020: ©0. 878 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A Tom Doherty Associates book". Part one: Exogenesis. Dreams -- Reliquary -- Extenuating circumstances -- Anguish -- Madness -- Shouts & echoes -- Countdown -- Out & about -- Choices -- Exeunt I -- Part two: Sublimare. Awakening -- Wallfish -- Assumptions -- Kriegsspiel -- Extremis -- Near & far -- Icons & indications -- Nowhere to hide -- Graceling -- Darmstadt -- Exposure -- Lessons -- Exeunt II -- Part three: Apocalypsis. Past sins -- A caelo usque ad centrum -- Shards -- Terror -- Sic itur ad astra -- Into the dark -- Necessity -- Sins of the present -- Exeunt III -- Part four: Fidelitatis. Dissonance -- Orsted station -- Escape! -- Necessity II -- Exeunt IV -- Part five: Malignitatem. Arrival -- Necessity III -- Integratum -- Ferro Comitante -- Astrorum Irae -- Sub specie aeternitatis -- Exeunt V -- Part Six: Quietus. Recognition -- Unity -- Decession -- Exeunt VI -- Addendum. Appendix I: Spacetime & FTL -- Appendix II: Ship-based combat in space -- Appendix III: Terminology -- Appendix IV: Timeline -- Afterword & acknowledgments. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira Navárez finds an alien relic. At first delighted, her elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact is not at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. Now Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation-- and Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope.-- adapted from jacket. 20211209. Best Science Fiction in the Goodreads Choice Awards Winner, 2020. Human-alien encounters Fiction. Space colonies Fiction. Interplanetary voyages Fiction. Space warfare Fiction. Women explorers Fiction. Extraterrestrial beings Fiction. Relics Fiction. Geographical myths Fiction. Alien artifacts Fiction. Aliens Fiction. Engaged persons Fiction. Men/women relations Fiction. Science experiments Fiction. Space exploration Fiction. Women scientists Fiction. Science fiction. Space opera.