A Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Rice University, he divides his time between Houston, Texas, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.Humans have finally pushed Earth to the edge of destruction with no going back. His other honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writers’ Award. The much-anticipated new novel by the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the Passage Trilogy – a mind-bending masterpiece for our world today…Ībout the Author: Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, Mary and O’Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. ‘A mind-bending novel full of big ideas and a rollercoaster’s worth of twists and turns – so powerful and thrilling!’ Something greater than anyone could possibly imagine, which could change the fate of humanity itself…
They seep into strange dreams – of the stars and the sea – and the unshakeable feeling that someone is trying to tell him something important. These simple words unravel something that he has secretly suspected. He never questioned his work until the day he is delivered a cryptic message: Proctor Bennett is a Ferryman, who shepherds the soon-to-be retired into the unknown. Meanwhile, life for Prosperans is perfection – and when it’s not, their bodies are sent to the mysterious third island: a facility named The Nursery, to be rebooted and restart life afresh.
The islands of Prospera lie in a vast ocean: in splendid isolation from the rest of humanity, or whatever remains of it.Ĭitizens of the main island enjoy privileged lives, attended to by the support staff who live on a cramped neighbouring island, where whispers begin to grow into cries for revolution. exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.’
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