Firstborn by Stephen Baxter & Arthur C. Clarke - SF - SFBookcase.com - Reference of Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels/Authors.

Series: A Time Odyssey
Volume: 3
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0345491572
Publisher: Del Rey
Price: $25.95
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Firstborn by Stephen Baxter & Arthur C. Clarke

Description: Years ago, United Nations peacekeeper Bisesa Dutt played an instrumental role in humanity's race against time to stop a doomsday event: a massive solar storm triggered by the alien Firstborn designed to eradicate all life from the planet. That fate was averted at an inconceivable price. Now, twenty-seven years later, the Firstborn are back. This time, they are pulling no punches: They have sent a "quantum bomb." Speeding toward Earth, it is a device that human scientists can barely comprehend, that cannot be stopped or destroyed-and one that will obliterate Earth. Bisesa's desperate quest for answers sends her first to Mars and then to Mir, which is itself threatened with extinction. The end seems inevitable. But as shocking new insights emerge into the nature of the Firstborn and their chilling plans for mankind, an unexpected ally appears from light-years away.