Firefall is the omnibus edition of the novels Blindsight & Echopraxia February 13 2082 First Contact Sixty-two thousand objects of unknown origin plunge into Earth's atmosphere
- a perfect grid of falling stars screaming across the radio spectrum as they burn Not even ashes reach the ground Three hundred & sixty degrees of global surveillance something just took a snapshot & then nothing But from deep space whispers Something out there talks
- but not to us Two ships Theseus & the Crown of Thorns are launched to discover the origin of Earth's visitation one bound for the outer dark of the Kuiper Belt the other for the heart of the Solar System Their crews can barely be called human what they will face certainly can't 'A tour de force redefining the First Contact story for good' Charles Stross ' If you only read one science fiction novel this year make it this one! It puts the whole of the rest of the genre in the shade It deserves to walk away with the Clarke the Hugo the Nebula the BSFA & pretty much any other genre award for which it's eligible It's off the scale Fking awesome!' Richard Morgan ' State-of-the-art science fiction smart dark & it grabs you by the throat from page one' Neal Ascher