![]() ![]() Jason, now a promising young scientist, devotes his life to working against this slow-moving apocalypse. At this rate, the death throes of the sun are only about forty years in our future. Time is passing faster outside the barrier than inside-more than a hundred million years per day on Earth. As Tyler, Jason, and Diane grow up, space probe reveals a bizarre truth: The barrier is artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts. Not only have the world's artificial satellites fallen out of orbit, their recovered remains are pitted and aged, as though they'd been in space far longer than their known lifespans. The sun is now a featureless disk-a heat source, rather than an astronomical object. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. ![]() One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. ![]()
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