I recall reading about a new science fiction book published recently (2018).
I seem to remember that it maybe involved a spaceship mission, and that there was a time travel element.
I believe I read about it on io9 first but I can't locate it.
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Sign up to join this communityI recall reading about a new science fiction book published recently (2018).
I seem to remember that it maybe involved a spaceship mission, and that there was a time travel element.
I believe I read about it on io9 first but I can't locate it.
I knew I had read about this novel on io9 so I went back and looked through their posts on reading lists. I eventually found the novel.
It is The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch, published in 2018.
It's about an investigator tasked with investigating a murder.
Someone involved was part of a time travel program and their spaceship was lost on a mission.
Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope. The Gone World follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind.
Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In Western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family--and to locate his teenage daughter, who has disappeared. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra--a ship assumed lost to the darkest currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.
Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence or insight that will crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself.
Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.