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Star splitter / Matthew J. Kirby.

by Kirby, Matthew J., 1976-

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Dutton Books, 2023.

Futurism -- Fiction.

Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction

Teleportation -- Fiction.

Survival -- Fiction.

Space colonies -- Fiction.

9780735231665 (hc.)

9780593619643 (pbk.)

305 p. ; 22 cm.

For Jessica Mathers, teleportation and planetary colonization in deep space aren't just hypotheticals -- they're real. They're also the very real reason her scientist parents left her behind six years ago. Now she is about to be reunited with them, forced to leave behind everyone she knows and loves, to join their research assignment on Carver 1061c, a desolate, post-extinction planet almost 14 lightyears from Earth. Teleportation is safe and routine in the year 2199, but something seems to have gone very, very wrong. Jessica wakes up in an empty, and utterly destroyed, landing unit from the DS Theseus, the ship where she was supposed to rendezvous with her parents. But Jessica isn't on the Theseus orbiting Carver 1061c. The lander seems to have crashed on the planet's surface. Its corridors are empty and covered in bloody handprints; the machines are silent and dark. And outside, in the alien dirt, are the carefully, and recently, marked graves of strangers. Now Jessica must unravel the mystery of the destruction all around her -- and the questionable intentions of a familiar stranger.

Science fiction.

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