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The Last Astronaut

Pages
384
Published
2019
Language
English

Synopsis

Mission Commander Sally Jansen is Earth’s last astronaut–and last hope–in this gripping near-future thriller where a mission to make first contact becomes a terrifying struggle for survival in the depths of space.

Sally Jansen was NASA’s leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she lives in quiet anonymity, convinced her days in space are over.

She’s wrong.

A large alien object has entered the solar system on a straight course toward Earth. It has made no attempt to communicate and is ignoring all incoming transmissions.

Out of time and out of options, NASA turns to Jansen. For all the dangers of the mission, it’s the shot at redemption she always longed for.

But as the object slowly begins to reveal its secrets, one thing becomes horribly clear: the future of humanity lies in Jansen’s hands.

About the author

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David Wellington

David Wellington is an American horror and science-fiction novelist, born in Pittsburgh in 1971 and based in New York City. He first built an audience by serializing his fiction online before it reached print, beginning with the zombie trilogy Monster Island, Monster Nation and Monster Planet. He went on to write the Laura Caxton vampire novels, which open with 13 Bullets, and the werewolf novels Frostbite and Overwinter, set in the Canadian Arctic. His science fiction includes The Last Astronau...

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