"This book is like Games of Thrones applied to Azimov's foundations with the style of Terry Pratchett."


Adam and Eve are innocent space settlers unwillingly caught up in the middle of the first confirmed alien encounter.
The ensuing three-sided game between indecipherable aliens, over-zealous robots and an estranged humanity turns out to be the early stage of a diplomatic war.
As things go from seriously wrong to considerably worse, vain villains and clueless heroes arise from all sides in a multifaceted struggle of anticipation and deception, but where miscalculation takes the lead.
In the hands of such people, displaying a total disrespect for common sense and a sub-optimal understanding of death, the survival of the human civilisation ranges indeed from the utterly uncertain to the plain gloomy. Such a situation would be labelled as a paradigm shift by the scientists, whereas the religiously-inclined would certainly behold it in awe as the long-awaited apocalypse.