Now a New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Winner of Best Science Fiction in the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards! To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a brand new epic novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eragon, Christopher Paolini. Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope . . . The Fractalverse Series To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Fractal Noise At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

クリストファー・パオリーニが放つ本作は、未知の生命体との接触がもたらす変容を、圧倒的スケールで描く壮大な叙事詩です。主人公キラが纏う異星の遺物は、彼女の存在を再定義する触媒となります。人間性を保ちながら「超人」へと進化する葛藤は、ファーストコンタクトものの枠を超え、魂の救済と再生を問う物語として読む者の心を激しく揺さぶります。 物語の本質は、宇宙の虚無の中でいかに自己を繋ぎ止めるかという哲学にあります。緻密な科学設定と詩的情緒が共鳴する筆致は、読者を星々の海へ誘い、生命の新たな地平を提示します。これは一人の女性の成長譚であると同時に、人類の可能性を極限まで押し広げる、眩いばかりの光を放つ文学的挑戦といえるでしょう。