| The Age of Death ended countless millennia ago. No longer burdened by limited life spans, the immortal humans who populate inhabited space now have the luxury to travel vast distances disembodied, as streams of data.
For twenty thousand years, every observable phenomenon in the universe has been successfully explained by the Sarumpaet Rules: the laws governing the dynamics of the quantum graphs that underlie all the constituents of matter and the geometric structure of space-time. Scientist Cass has designed a set of graphs that comprise a different type of physics. She travels to the remote planet of Mimosa to test her findings. Unfortunately the results are a reversal of the expected outcome and the scientists create a rapidly expanding vacuum which begins to eat its way through the galaxy, destroying thousands of inhabited planets in its wake. Six hundred years later, on a ship called the Rindler, which coasts along at the same speed as the vacuum's border, Tchicaya joins a gathering of people from all the remaining worlds, to study the vacuum. Tension arises between the Yielders-those who want to stop the vacuums progress but preserve it and the Preservationists-who want to destroy the vacuum. Amid the internal conflict, new evidence suggests that something previously unimaginable is rapidly growing deep within the mysterious, 600-light-years-wide vacuum. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of book - suspenseful (sophisticated fear) FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story Explore/1st contact/ enviro story Yes Explore: Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book Descript. of chases or violence - 10 % planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20 % Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 50 % Main Character Identity: - Male Profession/status: Age: - 20's-30's Setting Terrain A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a futuristic society Planet outside solar system? Yes Writing Style How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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