I am HOOKED! This opened with such a compelling blend of hard sci-fi and gripping, creeping cosmic horror. And the prose!! So many absolutely killer lines -- these ones especially made me shiver:
"To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them."
"Forty millions of miles it was from us—more than forty millions of miles of void. Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims."
It's great to have a beginning to this story. Looking forward to the following chapters.
I am HOOKED! This opened with such a compelling blend of hard sci-fi and gripping, creeping cosmic horror. And the prose!! So many absolutely killer lines -- these ones especially made me shiver:
"To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them."
"Forty millions of miles it was from us—more than forty millions of miles of void. Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims."