In Our Stars
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4.5 • 13 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Lieutenant Selene Genji has one last chance to save the Earth from destruction in this pulse-pounding science fiction adventure, from the author of the New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet series.
Earth, 2180
Genetically engineered with partly alien DNA, Lieutenant Selene Genji is different from ordinary humans. And they hate her for it. Still, she’s spent her life trying to overcome society’s prejudice by serving in the Unified Fleet while Earth’s international order collapses into war.
Genji is stationed on a ship in orbit when humanity’s factional extremism on the planet reaches a boiling point, and she witnesses the utter annihilation of Earth. When the massive forces unleashed by Earth’s death warp space and time to hurl her forty years into the past, Genji is given a chance to try to change the future and save Earth—starting with the alien first contact only she knows will soon occur.
Earth, 2140
Lieutenant Kayl Owen’s ship is on a routine patrol when a piece of spacecraft wreckage appears out of nowhere. To his shock, there is a survivor on board: Selene Genji. Once her strange heritage is discovered, though, it becomes clear that Genji is a problem Earth Guard command wants to dispose of—quietly. After learning the horrifying truth, Owen helps her escape and joins her mission.
Together, they have a chance to change the fate of an Earth doomed to die in 2180. But altering history could put Genji’s very existence in danger, and Owen wonders if a world without her is one worth saving. . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Campbell (the Outlands novels) launches a new series with this energetic human-alien romance wrapped in an inter-planetary thriller. When a mysterious blip appears on the space cruiser Vigilant's radar, Lt. Kayl Owen is assigned to investigate. The year is 2140, Mars has been colonized, and Kayl, a hot-rod helmsman with an axe to grind, discovers a single survivor in the wreckage of a highly advanced spaceship: Lt. Selene Genji. After Kayl learns that Selene's DNA is partly extraterrestrial, she reveals that she's from the future. She witnessed the destruction of Earth by a bomb so powerful it shot her back in time—and now she hopes to prevent this fate from happening. The two join forces to alter the future, which leads to numerous hair-raising chase scenes and crash-landings, as well as some cozy downtime aboard a luxury space liner. All the while, Kayl is falling in love with the beautiful and super-strong Selene, who worries that, because of the time loop, at any moment she might cease to exist. Campbell juggles a lot here, with military cover-ups, alien first encounters, and ruminations on what it means to be human studding the sprawling plot. Though the romance gets gooey, the high-orbit tech is nifty, and there are some fun secondary characters (including Owen's mother and aunt, who clash over him having an alien girlfriend). This series is off to a good start.
