Bøker av Peter A. Heasley

The moon is struck by an unseen object. Radio frequencies are filling with noise. As Earth continues on an uncertain course, former priest Jody Conque embarks on a journey across the country to his wife and daughter. His path is marked by increasingly sinister and surreal events that reveal new powers emerging through him, and soon he finds himself at the center of an invisible war with an unknowable enemy far more dangerous than the unraveling universe.In Under a Darkening Moon, the first volume of the Hyperbolia Series, Peter A. Heasley challenges us to forego easy answers about the cosmos and our place within it, in order to face an encroaching darkness and forge a path forward for the world.

Sea level has fallen six hundred feet. Many people are cocooned in sleep. Where the long winter is not grinding away at what remains of Earth's great cities, humans dwell behind fences. Keeping guard against attacks by specters emerging from the ocean, on the muddy edge of the exposed continental shelf, is Hudson MacDuff. His mother, Lucy, once a hero of the Great Eclipse, wants her son to build a life beyond the dystopian world he has inherited. Hudson feels bound to look after his brother, Owen, and his friend, Benny, and yet his gaze turns upward, Into a Hearkening Sky. Before he can ever touch the stars, though, Hudson must make an impossible journey into the depths to sever the cords to which he clings. Into a Hearkening Sky brings to a climax the events of its two acclaimed prequels-Under a Darkening Moon and Within a Wakening Earth-while forging into a family their characters, who learn how their lives and powers have been shaped to send a beacon of hope into the abyss.

In Within a Wakening Earth, two strangers wake after what appears to be several decades of slumber in a world they do not recognize and which they find utterly devoid of human life outside themselves. In this dystopian sci-fi sequel to Under a Darkening Moon, garrulous hair-stylist Todd and reserved biologist Mort embark on a cross-country exploration of a post-apocalyptic world in a search for humanity, and discover their new world appears instead to be inhabited by creatures of long-ago eras-like woolly rhinos and dinosaurs-as well as futuristic periods-like flying boats and humanoids. Though Todd and Mort's increasingly perilous journey eventually ends with the discovery of a world in which they can live, their exploration is far from over; their new fate is a mission into the center of the Earth-or, rather, the edge of the universe-that none have previously survived. Taking place twenty-seven years after the portentous events of its acclaimed prequel, Within a Wakening Earth unites new characters with familiar faces in an unforgettable pursuit to better understand their new world and how to continue their species' existence within it.

The moon is struck by an unseen object. Radio frequencies are filling with noise. As Earth continues on an uncertain course, former priest Jody Conque embarks on a journey across the country to his wife and daughter. His path is marked by increasingly sinister and surreal events that reveal Jody's own unique powers, and soon he finds himself at the center of an invisible war with an unknowable enemy far more dangerous than the unraveling universe. Jody must forego easy answers about the cosmos and his place within it to face the encroaching darkness and forge a path forward for the world. With a lyrical tone, UNDER A DARKENING MOON finds Michel Faber's THE BOOK OF STRANGE NEW THINGS on a philosophical and spiritual road trip through Andrew Hunter Murray's THE LAST DAY. It is the first installment in a series filled with endearing, richly-conceived characters and through whose volumes Earth itself plots a course to a destination no one will have anticipated.