

With the crew turning on each other, Asuka is determined to find the culprit before they all lose faith in the mission-or worse, the bomber strikes again. But estranged from her mother back home, The Phoenix is all she has left. She was the last picked for the mission, she struggled during training back on Earth, and she was chosen to represent Japan, a country she only partly knows as a half-Japanese girl raised in America. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect.Īsuka already felt like an impostor before the explosion.



But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. A single ship carries humanity’s last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. It is the eve of Earth’s environmental collapse. With the crew turning on each other, Asuka is determined to find the culprit before they all lose faith in the mission–or worse, the bomber strikes again.Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. Yume Kitasei’s The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew.
