La Chronique de 16h16
L'auteur de L'enfance attribuée prépare une nouvelle série de science fiction qui parle d'un premier contact qui a lieu dans une petite ville dans le Parc National d'Alaska :
Actusf : Sur quoi travaillez-vou ? Quelles sont vos prochaines publications ?
David Marusek : Ces cinq dernières années, j'ai travaillé sur une série de romans de science fiction qui prennent pour cadre l'Alaska ou je vis. Le premier est presque terminée et j'espère le publier cet été ou cet automne. je suis toujours en train de démarcher les éditeurs, mais, si nécessaire, je le publierai moi-même en epub. Son titre est UPON THIS ROCK—BOOK ONE: FIRST CONTACT
Voilà la quatrième de couverture :
An uneasy peace exists between the National Park Service and the few, odd, private residents of McHardy, a ghost town that is wholly contained within a national park in Alaska. One frigid December night in 2012, a bizarre object falls out of the sky and descends to the frozen ground in a cone of fiery light. It touches down on national park land. Only two people witness the event: Poppy Prophecy, the patriarch of a large fundamentalist Christian family that has come to Alaska to await the Apocalypse, and Ranger Jace Minder, a young backcountry ranger spending his first winter in Alaska.
Jace searches the river flats for the object, and he becomes the first human to make contact with an alien species. However, the alien itself appears to be a ten-foot-long, sparkly glass tulip. And it’s able to seize the energy from everything around it, including Jace’s body. He is forced to break off contact and retreat for his life.
When Poppy Prophecy rediscovers the glass object the following day, it appears to him to be, not a tall flower, but a herald’s trumpet from the throne room of Heaven. It does not try to suck the life energy from his body, and he takes it home to Stubborn Mountain. He and his family are converting a played-out copper mine inside the mountain into their private End-Times refuge.
Is the visitor from space an angel or an alien? Both patriarch and ranger put themselves and their loved ones in danger to lend it aid. But what they succeed in summoning is neither an angelic rescue party nor a friendly alien mothership but an unknown force of incalculable power that is able and willing to destroy Earth for its own inscrutable purposes.
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