Heaven's War

Name: Heaven's War
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: David S. Goyer
ISBN: 9781101564400

Author: David S. Goyer, Michael Cassutt

Series: Heaven's Shadow #2

Narrator: Joe J. Thomas

Unabridged: 14 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 07/03/2012

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

When it first appeared, the astronomers named the asteroid Keanu.

A Near Earth Object, from a distant constellation, it was headed directly toward our sun.

But when we went to meet it, it turned out to be far more than a huge rock hurtling through space...

The two teams of astronauts sent to explore Keanu discovered it is, in fact, a spacecraft, a giant ship with an alien crew. A ship that had headed to Earth with a mission and a message: Help Us. A brave new frontier beckons. But we are about to learn that it comes with a price...

Without warning, the aliens transport small groups of humans from the competing scientific communities of Houston, Texas and Bangalore, India to the vast interior habitats of Keanu. Their first challenge is to survive. Their second; to discover why The Architects—the unknown, unseen aliens controlling the asteroid—brought them there. And soon a third emerges: they must find a way to take control of Keanu.

Because the NEO is moving again—away from Earth. The Architects are headed home...

About The Author

David S. Goyer is a screenwriter, film director, and comic book writer. His work includes Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and Man of Steel. He is the creator of the television series FlashForward and Da Vinci’s Demons.Michael Cassutt is a television producer, scriptwriter, and author. His TV work includes The Twilight Zone, Max Headroom, and Eerie, Indiana. His novels include Missing Man and Red Moon.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gerhard

Warning: the sequel to heaven's Shadow begins almost immediately where the original volume ended so spectacularly, with the so-called alien 'vesicles' transporting a random assortment of people to the Keanu NEO. Initially, I thought this lack of a proper beginning meant an inevitably weaker middle vo......more

Goodreads review by Hackedlife

Maybe I read into the ending of the first book a bit too much, but to me it implied a much larger scope for the second book. Humanity being enlisted in a thousands year old intergalactic war. I definitely did not expect the story to be a few days in the life of people exploring a breaking down alien......more

Goodreads review by Nicholas

[URL not allowed] It turns out to be the second book in a series where I have not read the first, and the action is so tightly connected to the previous volume that I could not make head nor tail of it, and gave up after only 16 pages. For what it's worth, the characters see......more

Goodreads review by Ann

Read my review at Science Fiction and Other ODDysseys. Can't wait for the movies! :) Heaven's War review......more

Goodreads review by Brandon

Arrival Day - Brandon I really tried with this series, but I'm at my limit. It was just a tired slog again. The first time felt a little more fun because it at least had the veneer of a NASA mission, but this time that was gone. What was left was a "survival" story where, about halfway in, our "survi......more

Quotes

“A solid and engrossing novel in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein.”—George R. R. Martin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels

“Brisk and efficiently engrossing.”—Kirkus Reviews

“The sort of work that can hold its own among the genre’s greats; the Clarkes and the Nivens and the Heinleins.”—The Maine Edge