The Call of Abaddon
Colin Searle
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Add to basketSold by AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Add to basketnach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - To save the human race from the ultimate cosmic threat, Jason will have to become something far beyond human.New Toronto is a fractured city-arcology on a dying Earth, where hope is as scarce as clean air. For Jason, survival means scavenging the ruins beneath the city - where any day could be his last.But everything changes when an ancient alien obelisk - the ABADDON BEACON - attacks Jason's mind from afar, making his dormant psychic abilities spiral out of control. After barely surviving Abaddon's psionic possession attempt, Jason and his companions are left with no choice but to find the obelisk before it consumes him.Problem is, Abaddon has been sealed within a top-secret United Earth Federation research lab for over a century, silently worming its alien technologies into human society, presented as gifts with a far darker purpose. The Beacon doesn't just speak; it infects, projecting its viral energies far beyond the walls of the lab.And Jason isn't the only one hearing Abaddon's call. Across the Solar System, a ruthless Emperor will stop at nothing to seize the Beacon's power for himself.As the Imperial invasion of Earth looms, Jason's quest to confront Abaddon will force him into a critical choice: master the strange power growing inside him . or succumb to theBeacon's godlike influence, ushering in mankind's doom.The Call of Abaddon is a gripping mythological tale of humanity's struggle to overcome an unimaginable darkness, blending the political intrigue of Dune with the eldritch terror of Lovecraft, and the explosive world-building of The Expanse.
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Earth is losing the Solar War. An Emperor is coming to finish it. And something more ancient than humanity is behind it all.
New Toronto is a fractured city-arcology on a dying Earth, where hope is as scarce as clean air.
For Jason, survival means scavenging the ruins beneath the city…until an ancient obelisk from his forgotten past — the ABADDON BEACON — attacks his mind from afar, sending his dormant psychic abilities spiraling out of control. In the aftermath, Jason and his companions have no choice but to find the obelisk before it consumes him.
But that won’t be easy. Sealed within a top-secret research lab for over a century, Abaddon has quietly seeded its nanotechnologies throughout human civilization. Its gifts once saved us from oblivion. Now they have mutated into the Nanophage — a techno-plague spreading through every city, every fleet, and every offworld habitat.
Abaddon has set a time bomb at the heart of human civilization, and Jason may be the only one who can stop it. But he isn't the only one hearing the obelisk’s alien call.
The psychic Emperor Hadrian Mariko is preparing to invade Earth — and he wants Abaddon’s power for himself. With most resistance crushed, Commander Zeke Oakfield and his spec-ops squadron are the last defenders standing in Mariko’s way.
As invasion and contagion converge, Jason’s quest will put him on a collision course with the Emperor and force a final choice: master the power growing inside him, or deliver Abaddon exactly what it has waited eons to claim… all of humanity.
The Call of Abaddon blends the political intrigue of Dune with the cosmic terror of Lovecraft and the explosive world-building of The Expanse, into a gripping science fiction epic."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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