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Epilogue

About the Author



Prologue
St George, Eastside Australia, inside the exclusion zone: January 2401.

тАЬShitty death, PM,тАЭ said the driver. тАЬLook at the size of that bloody thing.тАЭ

Den Bari, Prime Minister of Australia, and Kimbell McKinnon craned their necks as far as they could to
take a look at the spacecraft from inside the vehicle. In the end, they had to get out and stand in the
morning sun, a shocking, breath-stopping 52 degrees of blast-furnace heat after the comfortable chill of
the car.

And the ship was huge. It hung high in the sky over a desert of abandoned buildings, a smooth cigar
shape, and when Bari took a look through the scope, it resolved into gently gleaming bronze metal with
what seemed to be lights or sunlight flashing off it. Even without any real sense of scale or distance, he
could see that it was bigger than anything Earth had ever constructed. But that wasnтАЩt what was most
shocking. It was the fact that it seemed to be changing shape as he watched it.

And it was alien. It was from another solar system, the very first to visit EarthтАФunless all those nutters
claiming they had probes up their backsides hadnтАЩt been hallucinating after all.

тАЬIs that heat haze?тАЭ said Bari. тАЬThe thing looks like itтАЩs warping.тАЭ