Series: Misc
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0312876343
Pages: 479 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Price: $27.95
Reader Rating: 7 out of 10
Votes: 1
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0312876343
Pages: 479 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Price: $27.95
Reader Rating: 7 out of 10
Votes: 1
Description: The sequel to Cold as Ice operates at the same high level of quality, though with 10 years' worth of other strong books to Sheffield's credit, that won't much surprise his steady readers. It opens with the solar system a little farther along in recovering from the Great War, and it interweaves three subplots involving three different characters. Alex Ligon, heir to a multiplanetary fortune, develops a population-expansion model that suggests the human race is doomed. Milly Wu, newly arrived at the SETI project base, believes she has detected the signals of intelligent aliens. And eccentric and reclusive mathematician Rustum Battachariya, who collects Great War hardware the way some people nowadays collect World War II relics, stumbles on something rather more dangerous: a weapon that can destroy the sun.
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