DESTINY CALLS
The Future is already written in the Stars
On 20 February 2300, a new flood wipes out all traces of human civilization, except for a few survivors, humans and trans-human mutants, who take refuge on the last emerging peaks.
The planet Earth disappears under the water and the planet Sea is born...
Over the centuries, humans have built a fifteen-thousand-meter tower called the "Bridge to the Stars" in an attempt to retrieve the scientific riches of the Starlift Odyssey space elevator, abandoned in space above the planet since the Flood.
A ship catapulted from its summit must reach the broken cables and establish a connection with the gigantic space machine. To build this extravagant monument, they need slaves and organize constant raids on the mutants scattered throughout the archipelagoes floating on the Planet Sea.
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On 26 March 2998, a slave hunter captures a young mutant with extraordinary powers, unaware of the forces he has just awakened that will devastate the Planet Sea...
The young mutant, Liin, is held prisoner in the Bridge to the Stars, but escapes during her interrogation.
A merciless hunt ensues. During her escape, Liin, thanks to her morpho-jewels - actually implants - awakens a very old artificial intelligence, locked up in a secret laboratory of the Tower and dumb since 20 February 2300, the date of the Flood. Thus, the legends of the existence of mythical three thinking and super-powerful beings that ruled the world before the Flood were true.
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For the leaders of the Bridge to the Stars, Liin, who they now know can communicate with the ancient AI, is more dangerous than ever, and each of them, for their own reasons, is willing to do anything to learn her secrets. And capturing her is so important that an all-out war against the mutants is declared... As the structures of the Space Elevator and its terminal, Central Station, glow with strange lights thousands of kilometers above the planet's sea, the war between the humans and the transhuman mutants rages on.
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In the giant Human Tower, the stakes for power are getting higher and higher. The rivalries between the clans, which lead to espionage, torture and betrayal, reach their peak as the departure of the ship to reclaim the Space Elevator approaches. It must bring back to humanity the scientific treasures that have lain dormant in the Elevator's old terminal for seven centuries: Central Station.
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Overcome by a spectacular vision, Liin becomes fully aware of the power of her implants, which allow her to communicate with the artificial intelligences, and the war between Humans and Transhumans culminates in the rebirth of those ancient quantum computers, extinct since the Great Flood of 20 February 2300.
Amid intrigue, rivalry, political maneuvering and betrayal, the mutant Liin moves inexorably towards her destiny, but the battle is far from over and the search for her origins will take her far beyond anything she could have imagined!
Never before has the future been imagined so creatively, and never before has the predictive power of astrology been used in the service of science fiction to bring an unprecedented and spectacularly dreamlike dimension to a story that will keep us on the edge of our seats until the final twist.
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Thierry Mutin & Elysabeth Hirschmann
