A man wakes up alone and can’t remember, well, pretty much anything. A computer asks him “What’s two plus two?” When he finally answers “four”, it asks him his name. But that’s gone.
It comes back to him before long, of course. Slowly, slowly, through flashbacks to his previous life, we find out who he is, what he does, and why he’s all alone on a starship that’s somehow arrived at Tau Ceti, thirteen light-years from Earth.
As it turns out, he—his name is Ryland Grace, which isn’t really a spoiler, since it’s in the book-flap synopsis—was one of the people who discovered a threat to our sun that could spell the end of all life on Earth. He’s been sent on a one-way mission to try to find a solution.
And, well, he’s not really alone. There aren’t any other humans alive on his ship, but… there’s more than one race afflicted with the solar problem.
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