ISBN: 9798163656189 - the harmony of stone: an integration story (4 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Eight years after Dr. Lira Ansel first heard the forest singing, Jae Kowalski has built a life inside the song.At 89% integrated with the forest Polyphony, Jae is Thessaly's most experienced communion guide - peaceful in ways that occasionally unsettle people, perceptive in ways that occasionally unsettle themselves. When the Guild selects them to lead the first expedition to Kethara, a mountain city carved from living rock, the assignment seems straightforward: make contact with a second Polyphony node, one that thinks in geological time and has been alone for longer than human civilisation has existed.What Jae does not anticipate is Dr. Kendra Vasquez.Kendra is Kethara's lead geologist - compact, precise, dry-humoured, and 0% integrated. Not out of ignorance or fear. She has read the research. She understands what communion offers. She has simply concluded, with the same careful rigour she applies to mineral strata, that individual identity is the thing she values most about being alive. She has no intention of changing this.She also has no intention of pretending she isn't falling for the most collective person she has ever met.The Harmony of Stone is a slow-burn sapphic romance set against the backdrop of a mountain city under threat and a geological intelligence learning - very slowly, in its own patient way - that the strange transient creatures keep coming back, and this is interesting.For readers who like their science fiction quiet, their love stories earned, and their questions left genuinely open.Book Two of the Polyphony Series. Can be read as a standalone. …

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