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The Stardust Grail

by Yume Kitasei

A search for a lost artifact with stakes across worlds

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A search for a lost artifact with stakes across worlds

Maya Hoshimoto has left her life as a galaxy-spanning art thief behind for anthropology studies, but a request from an old friend draws her back into the field. The mission centers on finding an artifact that might prevent an alien species’ extinction—a relic missing from living memory and sought by others. Ancient ruins, unfamiliar life, and Maya’s unsettling visions of the future shape a quest whose possible consequences extend to Earth and humanity. The premise brings together artifact recovery, interspecies survival, and the ethical weight of choosing whose future to protect.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Science-fiction readers interested in action-and-adventure quests across a richly populated universe.
  • Readers drawn to stories involving anthropology, ancient artifacts, and alien civilizations.
  • Readers who enjoy high-stakes choices involving the survival of more than one species.

Themes

Artifact recovery and cultural heritageAlien extinction and survivalThe consequences of difficult choicesVisions of the future

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Book overview

Save one world. Doom her own.

Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations--until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of anthropology, but she's haunted by persistent and disturbing visions of the future.

Then an old friend comes to her with a job she can't refuse: find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction. Except no one has seen it in living memory, and they aren't the only ones hunting for it.

Maya sets out on a breakneck quest through a universe teeming with strange life and ancient ruins. But the farther she goes, the more her visions cast a dark shadow over her team of friends new and old. Someone will betray her along the way. Worse yet, in choosing to save one species, she may condemn humanity and Earth itself.

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