The Gone World

Author: Sweterlitsch, Tom

Edition: 1st

Number Of Pages: 400

Details:

Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...“I promise you have never read a story like this.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family—and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra—a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence. Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself. Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.

Reviews:

Praise for The Gone World One of the A.V. Club's Top 10 Books of the Year 2018 One of BookPage's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018

“ The Gone World has already created quite a stir....The book probes questions about consciousness and crime that call to mind, among others, True Detective and 12 Monkeys.”

— EW.com

“I like to be freaked out and mystified simultaneously. The Gone World, a gory time-travel thriller, does both in surprising ways... .Inception meets True Detective, but it also contains elements of Solaris,  Interstellar, Twin Peaks, Minority Report, and even Stargate. To all this, it adds some innovative time-travel shenanigans.”

— The New Yorker 

“Page-Turner”

“ The Gone World will horrify and fascinate readers in equal measure. It is also a primer on cutting-edge theories about time travel and astrophysics...Prepare to be dazzled.”

— Pittsburg Post-Gazette“This is big-idea fiction that defies genre in the best possible way. Epic and mind-bending in scope, it carries the reader through on beautifully rendered, human moments.”—Blake Crouch, author of 

Dark Matter and the Wayward Pines trilogy

“Time travel is a classic science fiction plot element, but it’s rarely used so well as in Tom Sweterlitsch’s  The Gone World...Proof that superb world building isn’t only the domain of extensive series.”—The A.V. Club

“In a word: Whoa! Edge-of-your-seat crime fiction that bends both time and mind.”—Sylvain Neuvel, author of  Sleeping Giants

“ The Gone World...is going to blow readers away....[Sweterlitsch’s] ingenious apocalyptic thriller weaves a spell of rapture within each carefully composed page burnished with shimmering prose.” 

— Syfy Wire

“A complicated, dazzling novel that keeps the reader hooked until the last pages...In many ways, it feels like it blends the supernatural and cosmic elements from  True Detective, and the alternate universe elements of  Fringe.” —The Verge

“Another visionary blend of science fiction and mystery.”

— Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

“As if [ The Gone World did not have] a thrilling enough premise, Sweterlitsch stirs an intriguing end-of-the-world scenario into the mix...How the murder inquiry and the enigma of the terminal event are linked is just one of the many enjoyable aspects of this dark, page-turning SF thriller; another is the character of Moss... She is a resilient, vulnerable, and likable protagonist.”

— The Guardian

“A fascinating blend that doesn’t skimp on...

EAN: 9780399167508

Release Date: 06-02-2018

Languages: English

Item Note: Readable book with typical wear and small creases. Part of cover is torn. Has a remainder mark. Hardcover Used - Good 20181st

Item Condition: UsedGood

Binding: Hardcover