A history of what comes next /
Neuvel, Sylvain, 1973-
A history of what comes next / Sylvain Neuvel. - 400 pages ; 24 cm. - Take them to the stars ; book 1 .
P.B
Germany, 1945. Mia, a nineteen-year-old girl, is sent by the OSS to find Wernher von Braun. Her mission- stop the Russians getting hold of Germany - and the world's - foremost rocket scientist. Von Braun is suspicious. And so he should be. For Mia is no ordinary girl. She only looks human. And helping the Allies win the Second World War is but one part of her plan. Because there's an even darker conflict on Earth. A secret struggle thousands of years old. It has engulfed and taken generations of Mia's people. But can the firing of rockets finally bring about its end? Can Mia, as the last of her kind, bring the stars down to earth? And if she succeeds, what will happen to us?
0241445124 9781405945547 0241445132 9780241445129 9780241445136
Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977 --Fiction.
Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977.
Extraterrestrial beings--Fiction
Rocketry--Fiction
Space flight--Fiction
Space race--Fiction
Extraterrestrial beings
Rocketry
Space flight
Space race
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Fiction.
Science fiction.
Science fiction.
PR9199.4.N476 / N48 2021
813.6
A history of what comes next / Sylvain Neuvel. - 400 pages ; 24 cm. - Take them to the stars ; book 1 .
P.B
Germany, 1945. Mia, a nineteen-year-old girl, is sent by the OSS to find Wernher von Braun. Her mission- stop the Russians getting hold of Germany - and the world's - foremost rocket scientist. Von Braun is suspicious. And so he should be. For Mia is no ordinary girl. She only looks human. And helping the Allies win the Second World War is but one part of her plan. Because there's an even darker conflict on Earth. A secret struggle thousands of years old. It has engulfed and taken generations of Mia's people. But can the firing of rockets finally bring about its end? Can Mia, as the last of her kind, bring the stars down to earth? And if she succeeds, what will happen to us?
0241445124 9781405945547 0241445132 9780241445129 9780241445136
Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977 --Fiction.
Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977.
Extraterrestrial beings--Fiction
Rocketry--Fiction
Space flight--Fiction
Space race--Fiction
Extraterrestrial beings
Rocketry
Space flight
Space race
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Fiction.
Science fiction.
Science fiction.
PR9199.4.N476 / N48 2021
813.6