352 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 2002 by Orbit.
After the Ural Caspian Oil War, nobody really trusted the EU government. So why should their extraordinary announcement of first contact with alien intelligence be believed ?
Matt Cairns thinks he can discover the truth. It is out there, but much, much further away than he could have imagined. Thousands of light-years from Earth, a human colony is struggling for survival. The world on which they have settled, however, has already been inhabited by humans - and other intelligent species from Earth - for millennia. In that ancient division of labour, humans do have a place. But where is it ?
I was not a big fan of this book in the beginning, some of the things felt a bit cringey about some of the things in the beginning, but from the halfway point it started to get really enjoyable, and from there on out I enjoyed the book a lot more, probably enough that I will go on reading the next one some time in the future.
