One hundred years of stasis and a one-way ticket. They expected a barren planet: soil, water, and at best microbe level life. Instead, they found a verdant world full of diverse life…and a city advanced beyond understanding. A planet, once their hope and now a source of confusion that might soon turn to despair. A planet, but not their planet. No, someone else had got there first. Publisher’s note: Variant is the second book in the international bestselling Predictive Series. A science fiction, action-thriller set against a backdrop of a colonization war.