The Gone World
- 282
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
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About the book
The Silence of the Lambs meets Interstellar. The terrifying, thrilling and ingenious science-fiction thriller from Tom Sweterlitsch. Film rights bought by Twentieth Century Fox with Neil Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) to direct. 'Thrilling . . . [a] dark, page-turning thriller' The Guardian A murdered family. A missing girl. Time is running out... 1997. Shannon Moss of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family - and to locate the soldier's missing teenage daughter. When Moss discovers that the SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra - a ship assumed lost to the darkest currents of Deep Time - she comes to believe that the SEAL's experience with the future is somehow related to this violence. Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection to her own past, Moss must travel forward in time to seek evidence that will uncover the truth. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work; for what she witnesses is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself. 'Edge-of-your-seat crime fiction that bends both time and mind. Think True Detective meets 12 Monkeys. Throw in the end of the world and you can begin to imagine where this gut-twisting tale will take you. This is cross-genre fiction at its best' Sylvain Neuvel, author of Sleeping Giants
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 319 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 68% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 5.8 | 9 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 310 | 97% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“Completely immersive Wow, what a fun book in a while. I did enjoy this story immensely by few chapters in. So different than many other books that I have read for a long time. The creativity throughout the book was good. Enough to hook me…”
““Inception meets True Detective” is a great tagline, and captures the promise of this thrilling awful gem of a book perfectly. It's grisly and dark, but full of that spark of “what if” that always powers the best of sci-fi. For anyone intrigued or even…”
Frequently asked
How long is The Gone World?
It has 282 pages — shorter than 81% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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