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Five thousand years ago, the Kinley built a ship capable of traveling faster than light. It carried a group of scientists to a small, distant planet - a primitive place called Earth. Its mission was peaceful observation. But when the ship was destroyed, the Kinley crew found themselves stranded in ancient Egypt, participants in the pageant of life in the time of the Pharaohs. They buried remnants of their technology deep beneath the desert and sent a last desperate message home…. Five thousand years later, the Kinley homeworld hovers on the brink of extinction.

Set in our world, spanning the near to distant future, the author, Arwen Elys Dayton, explores the possible consequences of advanced medical breakthroughs and how they may shape and reshape humanity. From organ donation to plastic surgery to full bodily reconstruction, these stories take you by your (for now, organic) hand and lead you into a future where the line between person and machine becomes increasingly blurred. Deeply thoughtful, poignant, horrifying and action-packed, this novel strikes new ground while also seeming so strangely...likely. Just try to disconnect.

Quin has spent her life preparing to becoming a Seeker and following in her family's footsteps: a path she believed to be honourable and just. But the night she took her Oath, Quin learned the terrible truth about what being a Seeker really means. And now the boy she once loved is out for vengeance, with her family in his sights. Along with her oldest companion, Shinobu, Quin desperately wants answers. But the deeper Quin and Shinobu dig, the darker things become.

Die Kinley haben es geschafft, ein Schiff zu bauen, mit dem man schneller reisen kann, als das Licht. Es bringt eine Gruppe Wissenschaftler zu einem weit entfernten Planeten - einem primitiven Ort namens Erde. Es sollte nur eine friedliche Forschungsmission sein, doch als das Schiff zerstört wird, ist die Kinley-Crew im historischen Ägypten gestrandet und muss sich in das Leben zur Zeit der Pharaonen einfügen. Sie begraben die Überreste ihrer Technologie tief unter dem Wüstensand.