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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Christopher Paolini

Tor/Forge · Paperback · October 19, 2021

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Who it’s for
A familiar entry point if you liked Paolini’s cosmic scale and want more of it.
Genres
Space Opera, Alien Contact, Sci-Fi Adventure
Published
Tor/Forge, October 19, 2021

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About this book

Now a New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Winner of Best Science Fiction in the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards! To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a brand new epic novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eragon, Christopher Paolini. Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic.

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At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope . . . The Fractalverse Series To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Fractal Noise

Cosmic Return

A familiar entry point if you liked Paolini’s cosmic scale and want more of it.

Come here for

  • author’s familiar big-swing scope
  • hard-sf texture with space-opera momentum

Expect

  • sustained narrative immersion
  • alien-contact and hard-sf signals

Where it sits

Space Opera87%
Alien Contact81%
Sci-Fi Adventure41%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Sci-Fi Adventure
  • Space Opera
  • Alien Contact
Authors
Christopher Paolini
Publisher
Tor/Forge
Published
October 19, 2021
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
Sci-Fi Adventure