Book Description:
Una noche de octubre, cuando tenia diez anos, Tyler Dupree estaba en el patio de su casa y vio salir las estrellas. Hubo una gran brillantez que luego desaparecio, sustituida por un negro vacio. El y sus mejores amigos, Diane y Jason Lawton, habian visto lo que fue conocido como el Gran Apagon, que paso a formar parte de sus vidas y afecto al mundo entero. El sol es ahora un disco sin rasgos - una fuente de calor, en lugar de un objeto astronomico. La luna se ha ido, pero siguen habiendo mareas... / One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives. The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk--a heat source, rather than an astronomical object. The moon is gone, but tides remain. Not only have the worlds artificial satellites fallen out of orbit, their recovered remains are pitted and aged, as though theyd been in space far longer than their known lifespans. As Tyler, Jason, and Diane grow up, a space probe reveals a bizarre truth: The barrier is artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts. Time is passing faster outside the barrier than inside--more than a hundred million years per year on Earth. At this rate, the death throes of the sun are only about forty years in our future.
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