Along the way, they discover, the terminus which is a future annihilation slowly working itself ever closer to the present. In an alternate history universe, the US has been using its space program as a cover for a top secret program to investigate potential and alternate futures. Tom Sweterlitsch's The Gone World offers a unique blend of hard science fiction and horror, along with some gritty detective noir against a backdrop of blood and gore. Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself. Moss knows firsthand the mental trauma of time travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.ĭetermined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship USS Libra - a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family - and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. “I promise you have never read a story like this.” (Blake Crouch, New York Times best-selling author of Dark Matter ) Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind.

The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch