| Extremity: A Serpentine Series Novel Contributor(s): Huff, Stephen Donald (Author) |
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ISBN: 1720552088 ISBN-13: 9781720552086 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Science Fiction - General |
| Series: A Serpentine Series Novel |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6" W x 9" (0.76 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In pursuit of a naïve, hopeful tradition that once anticipated a cosmos overflowing with advanced civilizations, centuries of continual space exploration ultimately confirmed humankind's terrible loneliness. Beneath the generations-long shadow of this landmark determination, humanity eventually lost its appetite for further discovery. Commercial and political interests diminished, economies collapsed, and the Serpentine withered to a scarcely navigable web of forgotten frontier stations. Passed from one shattered archive to another during the epoch that followed, recollections of alien slaughters faded into folklore, fiction overwhelmed fact, and antiquities yielded to encroaching mythologies. For the first time in recorded history, technological capabilities receded. Ignorant generations followed. A thousand years later, a new breed of adventurer has returned to the Serpentine's abandoned frontiers, rising curious and enlightened from a dark age of internecine warfare, social isolation and grudging interstellar commerce. Forsaking material greed, these altruistic investigators come seeking only truth. Ultimately, they will resolve many long-standing mysteries while making fabulous discoveries, but the fatal costs and disturbing consequences of their success will drive them all past the limits of extremity. |