![]() ![]() Watts even works in the usefulness of crosses against vampires.) (Back a bit - vampire? And this is hard SF? Yes - Sarasti is a genetically reconstructed member of an offshoot species of predators from the dawn of humanity. The team members are a linguist, Susan James, who has (on purpose) multiple personalities Isaac Szpindel, a cybernetically enhanced instrumentation specialist Amanda Bates, a military specialist and the leader, Jukka Sarasti, a vampire as well as Keeton, who is an observer or intermediary - there to translate the findings of the variously enhanced team members to terms "normal" humans can understand, and transmit them to Earth. Five members awake when nearing a brown dwarf that is apparently orbited by possibly alien devices. ![]() Several waves of probes are sent from Earth to investigate, and Siri's ship, the Theseus, is the first manned investigator. It seems that Earth was - attacked? surveilled? - by what people call "Fireflies", a rain of probes that appeared one night. This new novel is told by Siri Keeton, member of an expedition to investigate an anomaly in the far Oort cloud. ![]()
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