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In actuality, however, the expedition has a darker purpose. The expedition's ostensible purpose is anthropological, to study the natives' unique psychic ""shared reality,"" a complex net of mutual understandings that makes lying and large-scale violence virtually impossible. As the novel opens, Earth has sent a starship to a planet whose inhabitants call it World. Only one truly alien species, the Fallers, has been discovered, and they are implacably hostile to humanity. Life turns out to be common on other planets, but surprisingly, most of it is related to us, the products of an experiment carried out by the race that built the tunnels. Humanity has begun to explore the stars using ""space tunnels"" created by an unknown alien race. Julie and Pete are rapidly converging in time� - a chance encounter between them may be the Earth's only hope.Best known for novels that carefully extrapolate near-future medical and social trends, Kress (Stinger) here tells a tale of interplanetary adventure centered in anthropology and physics. As Julie Kahn's predictive algorithms reveal that the world is in imminent danger, she discovers that she may also play a role in its possible rebirth. In the year 2013, a brilliant CIA consultant sees a pattern in seemingly unrelated kidnappings. Peter and the survivors hatch a desperate plan: to increase their numbers by abducting children from the past. The only chance for humanity lies within brief time portals. Although the Earth appears to be slowly healing, the Shell's inhabitants may not live long enough to see it.

But Pete struggles to control his anger as, one by one, the survivors sicken and die. Or why the aliens imprisoned twenty-six survivors in a sterile enclosure built on the barren remains of the Earth.įifteen-year-old Pete, one of only six children born in the Shell, is determined to lead humanity to a new beginning. No one knows why the Tesslies attacked in 2014, devastated the environment, and nearly destroyed humanity. In the year 2035, all that is left of humanity lives in the Shell.