TY - BOOK AU - Kirby,Matthew J. TI - Star Splitter SN - 9780735231665 (hardcover) U1 - [Fic] 23 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Dutton Books KW - Interplanetary voyages KW - Fiction KW - Space colonies KW - Teleportation KW - Science fiction KW - Survival KW - Survival fiction KW - tlcgt KW - lcgft N1 - new YA book 2023 winter; Kirkus Reviews Starred; 2/15/2023; Publishers Weekly; 2/27/2023; School Library Connection; 6/2023; School Library Journal; 7/2023; 9-12 N2 - In the year 2199, seventeen-year-old Jessica Mathers is planning to join her parents, whom she hasn't seen for six years, aboard the "Theseus," a research facility studying Carver 1061c, a desolate planet in the midst of a post-apocalyptic event. Getting there requires her to teleport, which will erase her identity on Earth and reconstruct it on the "Theseus." When she wakes on an empty lander on the surface of Carver 1061c however, she realizes something went very wrong. Alternating before and after chapters piece together what happened and the harrowing details of the advanced science that caused it ER -