Nicholas ferguson (72 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The Temporal CannibalIn a valley where time is food, a mother must choose between the future she escaped and the daughter she cannot save.SynopsisThe year is 1850, and the air tastes like woodsmoke, anticipation, and copper. For Elara Voss, a cartographer from the year 2247, this Appalachian frontier is not just a new home-it is a meal. Escaping a spent civilization, Elara and forty other pioneers have traveled back in time with machines bonded to their ribs-apparatuses that metabolize the "unlived years" of the native population to keep the colonists alive.They call it settlement. But as the seasons rush by and the native children stop growing, Elara knows the truth: "She is not a gardener. She is something with teeth".For eighteen years, the colony feeds. They consume over 400,000 years of human potential, leaving the valley "thinned" and ghostly. But amidst the silent destruction, Elara commits the ultimate transgression: she falls in love with a native man and bears a daughter, Sable. Born in the dead space of a consumed timeline, Sable is a "Null"-a child the machines cannot measure, a girl who generates her own warmth in a world growing cold.The ConflictWhen the Temporal Enforcement Commission (TEC) arrives to arrest the colony for "timeline poaching," the check comes due. The pioneers are ordered back to 2247. But Sable, having no temporal signature, cannot travel; if she enters the return aperture, she will simply cease to exist. If Elara stays behind to protect her, her apparatus will be deactivated, and she will unravel into nothingness.Trapped between a Director who wants to dissect Sable to unlock the secret of eternal life and a colony leader who has eaten his way to immortality, Elara must make an impossible choice. There is a hidden mode in her apparatus-an emergency function that can consume decades in seconds. To save the only thing she hasn't stolen, Elara may have to become exactly what she fears: a monster who eats the world to keep her daughter safe.Key Themes & ConceptsThe Metaphor of ConsumptionThe central conceit of this work is that colonialism is a form of literal consumption. The story deconstructs the idea of the "pioneer" by revealing the mechanical horror beneath it: the colonists survive by "eating" the futures of the indigenous time period. This is not merely metaphorical; the text describes the "chalite" buildup in the machines like plaque and the "pure consumers" who eventually stop eating solid food entirely because they prefer the taste of stolen time.The Horror of "Thinning"Unlike traditional time travel stories where changing the past creates paradoxes, here the damage is thermodynamic. The natives are not erased; they are "thinned." They lose their "temporal density," resulting in fatigue, developmental delays, and a transparency of being. The tragedy is quiet: a child who cannot run without falling because her future has been eaten, or a man who dies of "depletion" because his heart has no "next second" to beat into.The "Null" PhenomenonSable represents the antithesis of the colony. While the pioneers exist by taking, Sable exists as a "Null"-a being who occupies space without consuming time. She is described as "the space where the quiet can't go". Her existence challenges the colony's entire worldview because she proves that existence without theft is possible.The Thermodynamics of GuiltThe story operates on a brutal mathematical logic: "Time, once consumed, has been converted. The conversion is one-directional. There is no un-eating". There is no magic fix or reset button. The resolution involves learning to live in the "post-consumption" world, tending to the "hollow" stones and the scarred land, and finding a way to grow soil in a graveyard.</p Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

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Zustand: New. Csicsko, David Lee (illustrator).

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Zustand: good. This book is in good condition. The cover has minor creases or bends. The binding is tight and pages are intact. Some pages may have writing or highlighting.

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Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Csicsko, David Lee (illustrator).

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 286 pages. 5.12x0.83x7.72 inches. In Stock.

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