When humanity faces extinction, the heroes embark on an impossible mission to seek help from an alien intelligence 3,500 light years away.
What they discover forces them on a fast-paced journey through history's critical junctures - not to change the past, but to explore what it means to be human.
This isn't your typical time travel story. There are no heroic victories or neat solutions waiting at the end.
Instead, ordinary people must grapple with impossible moral choices while confronting forces that view humanity itself as a problem to be solved. Every act of compassion, every moment of beautiful human chaos, becomes part of a larger argument about whether our species manages to survive.
What sets this story apart is its unflinching examination of humanity's supposed flaws - our irrationality, our inefficiency, our stubborn refusal to be optimized. The crew must navigate not just the dangers of the past, but the temptation to become something other than human in order to save humanity itself.
A philosophical thriller wrapped in hard science fiction, exploring whether the very qualities that make us human are worth preserving - or if survival demands we abandon them entirely.
Autorentext
Mich Sol is a scientist and author with a lifelong drive?not just to learn, but to understand. He has published multiple scientific papers, with work spanning disciplines from biophysics to optics and nonlinear modeling. After retiring as Chief Technology Officer of a Silicon Valley startup, he continues to design complex nonlinear modeling systems while exploring, through his novels, the boundaries of free will, control, and the challenges AI presents to humanity.
His debut novel, Failsafe, of the Failsafe series blends philosophical sci-fi, existential questions, and technothriller elements, delving into the subtle forces that manipulate reality?and the rare few who resist them.