Salvation
(Book)

Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from "the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett). In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. The cutting-edge technology of linked jump-gates has rendered most forms of transportation--including starships--virtually obsolete. Every place on earth, every distant planet humankind has settled, is now merely a step away from any other. And all seems wonderful -- until a crashed alien spaceship of unknown origin is found on a newly-located world eighty-nine light years from Earth, carrying a cargo as strange as it is horrifying. To assess the potential of the threat, a high-powered team is dispatched to investigate. But all may not be as it seems. With tension and big ideas, the interweaving story lines tell us not only how humanity arrived at this moment, but also of the far-future consequences that result from it." --,Adapted from publisher.