TY - BOOK AU - Neuvel,Sylvain TI - A history of what comes next T2 - Take them to the stars SN - 0241445124 AV - PR9199.4.N476 N48 2021 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - Michael Joseph KW - Von Braun, Wernher, KW - Extraterrestrial beings KW - Fiction KW - Rocketry KW - Space flight KW - Space race KW - Alternative histories (Fiction) KW - Science fiction N1 - P.B N2 - 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? ER -