Apostles of Mercy is the new alternate history first contact novel from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and LA Times bestselling Lindsay Ellis.
Third Place Books is pleased to welcome Lindsay Ellis—author of Truth of the Divine and Axiom's End—for the third book in her Noumena series, Apostles of Mercy: A Novel. Tickets are required!
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- Book-bundled tickets come with a paperback edition of Apostles of Mercy. Books will be available for pickup at the event.
- All sales from General Admission tickets ($6) will be donated to our Books to Students Fund.
- If you are unable to attend the event, pre-purchased books will be placed on hold at our Lake Forest Park store. You may request to have your book placed on hold at our Ravenna or Seward Park location. Please allow time for transfer.
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About Apostles of Mercy. . .
First Contact has not been going well.
The nations of Earth are rapidly militarizing against the arrival of the Superorganism, an alien civilization that promises to destroy humanity before it can develop into a real threat. The Superorganism has done it before–to their distant Transient relatives–and they could easily do it again. But Superorganism defector Ampersand and his human interpreter Cora Sabino are done with trying to save humanity from both the Superorganism and itself; to them, this is a civilization that does not deserve to be saved.
When a strange new form of communication between the two of them reveals to Cora how alien Ampersand truly is, she begins to question her blind devotion. But she soon learns of a danger that may force them to leave Earth before either of them are ready: a group of transients that have been wreaking havoc on Earth for decades. Existence on the margins has made them desperate and bent on revenge against any perceived ally of the Superorganism, and before Cora and Ampersand can make their final escape, these hostile aliens stage an attack, and take that which is most dear to both of them.
These Transients will not consider any form of truce; the greatest threat to them is not from the Superorganism, but from an increasingly fearful and violent human civilization newly aware of their existence. Cora and Ampersand must go to extreme measures to take back what was stolen and prevent wholesale human extermination–but in doing so they may be no better than the civilizations they are trying to escape.
Lindsay Ellis is a New York Times bestselling author, Hugo Award finalist, and video essayist who creates online content about media, narrative, literature, and film theory. After earning her bachelor's in cinema studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, she earned her MFA in film and television production, with a focus in documentary and screenwriting, from USC's School of Cinematic Arts. She lives in Long Beach, California. Her debut novel, Axiom's End, was an instant New York Times bestseller.
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