How do you define “person” in the first place?Ĭora Sabino not only serves as the full-time communication intermediary between the alien entity Ampersand and his government chaperones, but also shares a mysterious bond with him that is both painful and intimate in a way that neither of them could have anticipated. As the political climate becomes more unstable, the world is forced to consider the ramifications of granting human rights to non-human persons. The human race is at a crossroads we know that we are not alone, but details about the alien presence on Earth are still being withheld from the public. Truth of the Divine is the new alternate history first contact novel from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and LA Times best-selling video essayist Lindsay Ellis. (Oct.PLEASE NOTE: An earlier version of this audiobook had chapters out of order, but this error has been corrected. Agent: Christopher Hermelin, the Fischer-Harbage Agency. This thought-provoking novel will linger long in readers’ minds. Ellis draws skillful parallels between her science-fictional politics and real world issues, gracefully navigating the difficult topics of discrimination, violent extremism, mental health, and addiction. Meanwhile, Cora and Ampersand cope with PTSD amplified by their dynamic fusion bond-and Cora realizes that Ampersand has been less than honest with her. As the party’s extremists grow increasingly violent, things are further complicated by the arrival of yet another amygdaline, this one determined to fulfill a suicide pact with Ampersand.
without a human chaperone, essentially classifying them as second-class citizens. Out of the turmoil rises the Third Party, advocating a Third Option, a “proposed law that would create an entirely new category of personhood” and severely limit the amygdalines’ ability to function within the U.S. While the world’s governments debate how many rights, if any, to extend to the amygdalines, unrest builds in the United States due to the lack of public information about the aliens.
The situation with intelligent extraterrestrials on Earth grows ever more complex in bestseller Ellis’s brilliantly considered follow-up to Axiom’s End, which finds human Cora and alien amygdaline Ampersand navigating a political minefield.
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