Půlnoční nebe – Brooks-Dalton Lily (2021)

A global bestseller that inspired a film on Netflix. The brilliant astronomer Augustine finds himself at the end of his life, while astronaut Sully is at the peak of hers – yet both know what extreme solitude entails. When an unspecified catastrophe strikes our planet, we find him at a remote Arctic station, while she is aboard a spacecraft returning from Jupiter to Earth. The stubborn scientist, who refused to join the evacuees and stayed at the observatory during the crisis, soon discovers a little girl named Iris in an abandoned shelter, and in his attempts to call for help, he realizes that the radio waves are silent. Sully and her crew in the rocket are also terrified by the fact that the control center on Earth is not responding... Against the backdrop of an indifferent universe and the painfully beautiful northern nature, both heroes struggle to find a way out of hopelessness. At the same time, they come to terms with what they have consciously set aside in their hearts, as ambition has always overshadowed their feelings. Despite all the horrors, however, there is still hope that has eluded the castaways until now. Crystal clear, movingly psychological, and simultaneously impressively dystopian, this novel by American Lily Brooks-Dalton tests the very limits of courage, commanding us to remain human at all costs. Perhaps even the last one.