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01545aam a2200289 4500 001 09C0AFDE3B0511EDADB189BD42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220923010034 008 220311s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0316705845 020 $a 9780316705844 040 $d IaCres $d SILO 100 1 $a Tchaikovsky, Adrian, $c author, $d 1972 - 245 1 $a Shards of Earth. 250 $a First U.S. Edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Orbit, $c 2021. 300 $a 548 pages ; $c 25 cm. 520 $a After Earth was destroyed mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared. The war over, its heroes forgotten, Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him. He scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. Now, fifty years later, his crew has discovered something strange abandoned in space... something many would kill to obtain. It's clearly the work of the Architects-- but are they returning? And if so, why? 541 $d 20220311. 600 14 $a Human beings - Extinction - Fiction. 600 14 $a Salvage vessels - Fiction. 650 7 $a Extraterestrial beings $x Fiction. 650 $a Human-alien encounters $v Fiction. 651 $a Outer space $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l AJPE887 $d 20220923010051.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=09C0AFDE3B0511EDADB189BD42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search