Hardcover, 364 pages

English language

Published April 2005 by Tor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-0938-9
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OCLC Number:
56517962
ASIN:
0765309386
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One night when he was ten, Tyler stood in his backyard and watched the stars go out. They flared into brilliance, then disappeared, replaced by an empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.

The sun is now a featureless disk — a heat source rather than an astronomical object. The moon is gone, but tides remain. The world's artificial satellites have fallen out of orbit. Space probes reveal that the barrier is artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts. Time passes faster outside the barrier, more than a hundred million years per day on Earth. At this rate, the death of the sun is only about forty years away.

Jason, now a promising young scientist, devotes his life to working against this slow-moving apocalypse. Diane throws herself into hedonism, marrying a sinister …

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Subjects

  • Human-alien encounters -- Fiction
  • End of the world -- Fiction
  • Cults -- Fiction