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Table of Contents
Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Part One: Exogenesis Dreams Reliquary Extenuating Circumstances Anguish Madness Shouts & Echoes Countdown Out & About Choices Exeunt I Part Two: Sublimare Awakening Wallfish Assumptions Kriegsspiel Extremis Near & Far Icons & Indications Nowhere to Hide Graceling Darmstadt Exposure Lessons Exeunt II Part Three: Apocalypsis Past Sins A Caelo Usque ad Centrum Shards Terror Sic Itur ad Astra Into the Dark Necessity Sins of the Present Exeunt III Part Four: Fidelitatis Dissonance Orsted Station Escape! Necessity II Exeunt IV Part Five: Malignitatem Arrival Necessity III Integratum Ferro Comitante Astrorum Irae Sub Specie Aeternitatis Exeunt V Part Six: Quietus Recognition Unity Decession Exeunt VI Addendum Appendix I: Spacetime & FTL Appendix II: Ship-Based Combat in Space Appendix III: Terminology Appendix IV: Timeline Afterword & Acknowledgments Also by Christopher Paolini A Conversation between Brandon Sanderson and Christopher Paolini About the Author Newsletter Sign-up Copyright
AS ALWAYS, THIS IS FOR MY FAMILY. And also for the scientists, engineers, and dreamers working to build our future among the stars.
PART ONE EXOGENESIS
O goddess-born of great Anchises’ line, The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies. —AENEID 6. 126–129 JOHN DRYDEN TRANSLATION
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