Census static von arven (2 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the floating sea-city of Tarn, to be counted is to exist. Census-taker Vey Corwin measures the living against the Static, a slow and damaged broadcast that carries messages between humanity's scattered worlds across years and ruin. Her work is quiet, precise, and suddenly impossible: nineteen names begin arriving with perfect regularity, entries no archive can place and no official will investigate. Someone counted these people once. Someone erased them. The ledger remembers. The names lead Vey toward an erasure older than the city itself, an aquatic people struck from the record because acknowledging them would reopen every human claim to the settled seas. To count them truthfully is to risk war, imprisonment, and the collapse of lawful certainty. To stay silent is to decide, by omission, who is real. A slow-burn first-contact mystery about knowledge as power, The Census of Static is a literary science-fiction novel of ledgers, broadcasts, and the long cost of being forgotten. For readers who loved The Dispossessed and The Three-Body Problem. …