Eternal Light (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul J. McAuley
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—future war
- Time of Work: The distant future
- Setting: Various locations on Earth and in space
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Extrasensory perception or powers, Extraterrestrial life, Future, Other worlds, War, Angels
- Locales: Space, Earth
The Plot
Paul J. McAuley’s Eternal Light continues the story of Dorthy Yashida, a young Japanese woman with extraordinary psychic abilities, that began in his first novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988). A terrible war and exodus by an alien race, the Alea, from the center of the galaxy millions of years before the time of the novel serves as the catalyst for the books events.
The Alea and humanity fought a tragic war that ended in the slaughter of the aliens. In an effort to evaluate a potential threat to Earth, two expeditions race to a rogue star...
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