For the First Time, Again
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| Author | Sylvain Neuvel |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Take Them to the Stars |
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| Publisher | Tor Books |
Publication date | April 2023 |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Media type | Hardback |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 978-1-250-26257-8 |
| Preceded by | Until the Last of Me |
For the First Time, Again is a 2023 science fiction alternate history novel by Canadian writer Sylvain Neuvel. It was first published in April 2023 in the United States by Tor Books, and in the United Kingdom by Michael Joseph. The book is the last of three books in Neuvel's Take Them to the Stars series, preceded by A History of What Comes Next (2021) and Until the Last of Me (2022).
For the First Time, Again is set between the late-1990s and the mid-2000s, and is about a group of women who continue to manipulate history to get humanity into space The novel's chapter titles are titles of songs from the period in which the chapters take place.[1]
Aster is the last of the mysterious Kibsu. Her mother Lola died when Aster was very young, leaving her orphaned and without any knowledge of the Kibsu and their goals. Samael, the last of the Trackers, brings Aster up and tells her about the Kibsu and the Tracker's extraterrestrial origins. The Kibsu had been tasked with protecting Earth from another alien invasion by sending humanity into space, while the Tracker's goal was to locate and trigger a beacon to draw the invading aliens to Earth.