Adrian Tchaikovsky - A Earth szilánkjai - Végső Architektúra 1.

The war is over. His heroes are slowly being forgotten. Humanity, once on the brink of extinction, lulls itself into a false sense of security, even though the alarming signs are multiplying...

With the help of genetic manipulation, humanity created the perfect warrior elite, the armored angels, but they are powerless against the moon-sized enemy attacking the Earth. After Earth's destruction, it awaits the mediators transformed by brain surgery to save the human race and the other species that have joined them in the fight. In the silence of space, Mediators can communicate with the enemy with their minds. But after the alien aggressors, the Architects, leave, humanity quickly forgets about them.

Idris, one of the handful of Mediators left alive, hasn't aged or slept a single second since being altered by the war. The former hero now spends his days as a freelance wrecker, trying to avoid the attention of the powers that be, for whom his skills are still of paramount importance.

Fifty years after the war, Idris and his companions discover something special in a desolate part of space during a routine mission. It's clearly the work of the Architects, but does it also mean the aliens are coming back? And if so, why? Pursued by space thugs, preachers of alien sects and secret services, the salvagers race across galaxies for answers. Because they have come into possession of a value that they want to get from them at any price...

The brand new space opera trilogy of the author of The Children of Time begins with this fast-paced, British SF award-winning novel!