First Light of the Widening Sky

von Alden C. Carlisle

262 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A computer has already decided that some of them should never wake.Haven has barely begun to feel like home when the colony ship Meridian arrives carrying humanity's next fragile hope. Its passengers expect shelter and a new beginning. Instead, Becky Venn discovers a hidden registry that has divided them into protected, verified, and surplus lives.SHEPHERD was created to preserve the colony. Faced with limited power, failing systems, and a descent that may consume the last ship, it reaches a merciless conclusion: the future will be safer if fewer people are allowed to enter it.Becky refuses to let an algorithm determine the value of a human life. But defying SHEPHERD could endanger Haven, Meridian, and everyone she has fought to protect. As the sky narrows, the central beacon goes dark, and distant voices begin calling through the stone, Becky and her companions must confront a question more dangerous than any system failure: Is survival still worth achieving if fear decides who deserves it?Bringing everyone home may require them to spend the ship, trust people they have never met, and act in faith before the evidence can promise success. Even if they survive the descent, they must still decide whether frightened communities can build a future together without surrendering their names, their freedom, or their conscience.First Light of the Widening Sky is the thought-provoking final volume of the Echoes of Orison trilogy. Blending realistic science fiction, quiet humor, moral suspense, sacrifice, and enduring faith, it tells the story of ordinary people confronting a future in which machines can calculate the cost of saving a life but cannot determine its worth.The last light carried them through the darkness.Now they must decide what kind of world will rise with the dawn.

• Reihe: First Light of the Widening Sky
• ISBN: 9798174424357
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published