05371cam a2201165 4500 2648425073 TxAuBib 20260101120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9798895150535 B0F4RR1TGQ Amazon a2e497df-820b-46e1-9682-5f507848de02 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11842425 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Brush, Colin. Exo [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Diversion Books, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. metaphysical science fiction. environmental catastrophe. High-stakes investigation. eerie atmospheric fiction. literary science fiction. hyperdimensional entity. unconventional heroine. hard sci-fi with heart. interplanetary tension. psychological mystery. philosophical mystery. mind-bending thriller. haunting future earth. humanity on the brink. speculative detective. surreal worldbuilding. Kim Stanley Robinson. corporate conspiracy. genre-bending sci-fi. introspective sci-fi. speculative fiction. ecological thriller. conspiracy thriller. memory and identity. dangerous knowledge. otherworldly terror. Alien consciousness. deep space politics. grief and obsession. post-earth survival. female protagonist. scientific mystery. space colonization. alien intelligence. science and ethics. mission gone wrong. sentient landscape. twisty sci-fi plot. lost civilization. older female lead. planetary mystery. post-apocalyptic. dystopian future. futuristic earth. Forbidden Planet. orbital habitats. haunting mystery. Survival Mystery. mysterious ocean. planetary horror. slow burn sci-fi. Science Fiction. climate fiction. rogue scientist. cosmic suspense. abandoned earth. secret journals. sci-fi mystery. post-human era. sentient ocean. first contact. John le Carré. cosmic horror. dual timeline. Moon Colonies. retired agent. rogue science. found family. unlikely duo. John Scalzi. mute child. space noir. the caul. A debut sci-fi mystery set on an abandoned future Earth, featuring a twisty mystery straight out of a John le Carré novel, a group of larger-than-life characters who'd be at home in the work of John Scalzi, and a deeply weird and dangerous hyperdimensional entity to haunt the dreams of any reader of Kim Stanley Robinson. Humanity is dying. Banished from the Earth, our descendants eke out lives in orbital habitats and moon colonies––and look with longing on our former home. But Earth is deadly. Over hundreds of years, its oceans have transformed into an annihilating liquid entity––the Caul. Every living creature approaching its shores is irresistibly compelled to enter. . . and is never seen again. Scientists, some of the few inhabitants left, work in facilities seeking to understand and stop the Caul. And scavenging the shores are the penitents—those who resist its siren lure. Among them is penitent Mae Jameson, an octogenarian former Service agent who arrived on Earth thirty years ago to find her lover. When she encounters Siofra, a mute girl, wandering alone by the shore and returns her home, they discover the girl's father, rogue scientist Carl Magellan, hanging from a noose. He's been murdered. Unwilling to leave the matter in the hands of the facility Carl abandoned years ago, Mae takes Carl's journals—which detail his obsession with the Caul and its mysteries—and sets about investigating. In this page-turning, dual-timeline novel, both Mae and Carl's quests for the truth put them at the center of a dangerous conspiracy. Someone believes they can use the secret of the Caul to shape humanity's future, and they aren't afraid to kill to keep control of it. Science Fiction. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-12-31 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a2e497df-820b-46e1-9682-5f507848de02&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a2e497df-820b-46e1-9682-5f507848de02&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)