Prophet of Bones
by Ted Kosmatka
Paul Carlson, a brilliant young scientist, is summoned
from his laboratory job to the remote Indonesian island of Flores to
collect DNA samples from the ancient bones of a strange, new species of
tool user unearthed by an archaeological dig. The questions the find
raises seem to cast doubt on the very foundations of modern science,
which has proven the world to be only 5,800 years old, but before Paul
can fully grapple with the implications of his find, the dig is
violently shut down by paramilitaries.
Paul flees with two of his friends, yet within days one has vanished and the other is murdered in an attack that costs Paul an eye, and very nearly his life. Back in America, Paul tries to resume the comfortable life he left behind, but he can't cast the questions raised by the dig from his mind. Paul begins to piece together a puzzle which seems to threaten the very fabric of society, but world's governments and Martial Johnston, the eccentric billionaire who financed Paul's dig, will stop at nothing to silence him.
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Ted Kosmatka
Ted Kosmatka's short fiction has been nominated for both the Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and appeared in numerous Year’s Best collections.
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