From Robert Charles Wilson, the writer from the Hugo-winning Spin, comes Burning up Paradise, a new tale of humans arriving at grips having a universe of implacable strangeness.

Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015-but it’s not our USA, and it’s not our 2015.

Cassie’s world has been at peace because the Great Armistice of 1918. There was no World Battle II, no Great Major depression. Poverty is certainly declining, prosperity is definitely increasing everywhere; public instability is normally about Burning Heaven uncommon. But Cassie understands the world isn’t what it seems. Her parents were part of an organization who gradually found out the terrible truth: that for decades-back towards the dawn of radio communications-human improvement continues to be interfered with, produced more peaceful and harmless, by an extraterrestrial entity. That by interfering with our marketing communications, this entity has tweaked background in massive and subtle ways. That humanity can be, for purposes unidentified, being farmed.

Cassie’s parents were killed for this understanding, along with most of the other members of their group. Since that time, the survivors have scattered and eliminated into concealing. Cassie and her young brother Thomas right now live with her aunt Nerissa, who stocks these harmful secrets. Others live nearby. For eight years they have attempted to lead unexceptional lives to be able to get away recognition. The tactic has worked.

Until now. Because the killers are back again. And they’re not human.