Star Splitter

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A 2024 Edgar Award Nominee! Survival and self-determination collide in this haunting, pulse-pounding science fiction novel from Edgar Award–winning author Matthew J. Kirby that spa ns both space and time. “An intense, read-in-one-sitting kind of ride.”—Kirkus, starred review The year is 2199. Deep-space exploration is a reality, and teleportation is routine. But this time, something has gone very, very wrong. Seventeen-year-old Jessica Mathers wakes up in a lander that’s crashed onto the surface of Carver 1061c, a desolate, post-extinction planet fourteen light-years from Earth. The planet she was supposed to be viewing from a ship orbiting far above. The corridors of the empty lander are covered in bloody handprints; the machines are silent and dark. And outside, in the alien dirt, there are fresh graves carefully marked with names she doesn’t recognise. Now Jessica must unravel the mystery of the destruction all around her—and the questionable intentions of a familiar stranger. Show more