Richard Paul Russo

Hace mucho tiempo, en un antiguo templo, Cale encontró un volumen con páginas hechas de un raro metal y escrito en un idioma indescifrable. Tras soportar muchos años de esclavitud, un mercader ha decidido ponerlo en libertad. Solo al llegar al Mundo de Conrad, un planeta lejano de habitantes cultos, se dara cuenta de la importancia del descubrimiento: el libro es la clave para comprender un dialecto alienigena que ningun humano ha escuchado jamas. Pero sus paginas tambien guardan un secreto que algunos desean eliminar a cualquier precio... mientras otros lo buscan con la misma desesperacion.

A cinq ans, esclave sur une planète prison...Il a cinq ans, et il a tout perdu. Ceux quil aimait, son monde dorigine, et jusquà son identité.Parce que le vaisseau de son père a été attaqué en approch

Nadie puede recordar de dónde proviene la nave estelar Argonos. Su misión es desconocida, incluso para los miles de tripulantes que la habitan desde hace cientos de años, vagando en un viaje interminable a través de la galaxia en una desesperada búsqueda de algún rastro de vida. Ahora, una señal no identificada guía a la Argonos hasta un extraño planeta. Una expedición de la nave llegará hasta las profundidades de una jungla, donde se encontrará con una aterradora y dantesca visión. Sin esperanza alguna de encontrar vida humana, partirán de nuevo hacia el espacio. Pero la aparición en su camino de una nave alienígena puede ser la clave… O la prueba de que una terrible amenaza acecha a lo que queda de la humanidad. 

Cale Alexandros was five years old when the path of his life was irrevocably altered. As the scion of a wealthy and powerful family, he enjoyed a privileged existenceuntil his familys starship was attacked en route to Morningstar, the lone outpost of civilization on a savage planet known as Conrads World. In an escape ship, Cale crash-landed in the wilds, and was picked from the wreckage by nomads. For years, Cale is forced to endure life as a slave, sold and shuffled from one group of brutish thugs to anotheruntil a trader recognizes a glimmer of promise in Cales eyes, and frees him. Cale travels far and wide, but he never forgets what happened long ago, in the desert wastes . . . when, in a strange, ancient temple, he found a book with pages made of a strange metal, and writings he could not identify. When he finally reaches Morningstar, he comes to realize that the book is a key to understanding a language never heard by mankind, an alien dialect. It also holds a secret that some people want to learn, a treasure that some want for themselves, and a revelation that some will do anything to control.

[Russo] is not afraid to take on the question of evil in a divinely ordered universe...This is an ambitious novel of ideas that generates considerable suspense while respecting its sources, its characters, and most important, the reader.The New York TimesHome to generations of humans, the starship Argonos has wandered aimlessly throughout the galaxy for hundreds of years, desperately searching for other signs of life. Now, a steady, unidentified transmission lures them toward a nearby planet, where the grisly remains of a former colony await the crew. Haunted by what they have seen, the crew has no choice but to follow when another signal beckons the Argonos into deep spaceand into the dark heart of an alien mystery...

On a ship without a mission ... No one remembers where they came from or where theyre going. For hundreds of years, the starship Argonos, home to generations of humans, has wandered throughout the galaxy, searching for other signs of life. Now, a steady, unidentified transmission lures them toward a nearby planet.On a planet without inhabitants ... The colony has vanished. But deep within the planets steamy jungles, the exploration team find horrible evidence of its fate: a cavernous chamber neatly filled with rows of skeletons, each one hanging on its own hook.On a collision course with the unknown ... Once more, a signal lures the crew of the Argonos. Haunted by what they have seen, they have no choice but to follow - deep into space, where an alien mystery waits.

LArgonos est un monstre de métal. Un vaisseau démesuré qui nourrit en son sein des milliers dêtres humains depuis des générations. Nul ne sait plus dans quel but, nul ne sait plus pour quelle destina