![]() Others are far more complex-like the turbine of an experimental jet engine or the core of a mysterious weapon left over from the darkest days of WWII. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one of them has received. Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station. Some of the objects are innocuous everyday things-like a butter knife taken still greasy from a breakfast table or a dented cap popped off a bottle of beer. Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters The Thing. ![]() Nobody knows how, why or exactly when this change came about, but disparate, seemingly unconnected people have become afflicted with the uncontrollable desire to take objects and move them to other places, where the objects gather and begin to form increasingly alien, monolithic structures that appear to have vast technological implications. ![]() Clarke Award-nominated writer Adam Roberts ( The Thing Itself) and François Schuiten, recipient of the Angoulême International Comics Festival’s prestigious lifetime achievement award, present The Compelled, part one of a two-part sci-fi novella series and the first book-length science fiction publication that Schuiten has illustrated.Ī mysterious change has occurred in humanity. ![]()
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