Shards of Earth

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction,and how one man’s discovery will save or destroy us all. The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . . Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity’s heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vesselto avoid the attention of greater powers. After earth was destroyedmankind created a fighting elite to save their speciesenhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicatemind-to-mindwith the enemy. Then their alien aggressorsthe Architectssimply disappeared–and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Nowfifty years laterIdris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space. It’s clearly the work of the Architects–but are they returning? And if sowhy? Hunted by gangsterscults and governmentsIdris and his crew race across the galaxy hunting for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable valuethat many would kill to obtain.