Look to the Stars

Dave Marlin didn't ask to land on a world where gods still walk the earth. N'urth is nothing like the colonization surveys promised: ancient temples rise beside cities that shouldn't exist, and the locals speak of creation myths with the certainty of eyewitnesses. When Marlin finds himself entangled in a journey that crosses the boundaries between legend and reality, he must decide whether the answers he seeks are worth the cost of belonging to a world that was never meant for him. This mid-century planetary adventure weaves together the thrill of first-contact science fiction with the timeless question of what humanity might find if we looked too closely at the stars. Hawkins builds a world where the line between myth and science blurs until they become indistinguishable, and where one man's survival depends on understanding a civilization that remembers its own beginning.