They get sucked into the slipstream of the accelerating moon, and soon they are flying at a strong percentage of lightspeed. And since Bella makes a decision to believe the company stooge instead of her friend, this begins the long running battle between Bella and Svetlana Barseghian. She convinces them by a slim margin, but as they start accelerating toward Janus, Bella's best friend and Chief Engineer finds some anomalies that convince her that they have a fuel shortage and if they can get there, there won't be enough fuel to get back. After all, they are ice miners, not explorers. And of course, there's only one ship close enough to catch it, yep Rockhopper.īella needs to convince her crew to head out. It's what we do." Just as they are getting ready to send a comet back to the inner system, one of Saturn's moons, Janus, decides to head for deep space in the direction of Spica, shedding ice as it accelerates. In a most literal sense.īella Lind is Captain of the Rockhopper, a huge ice miner working beyond the asteroid belt. It starts about 18000 years in our future, segues back to our near future, and then accelerates.
This is a terrific book with a sensawunda. And after the wonderful Century Rain, I moved Reynolds onto that list too.
I'll always read anything by Lois McMaster Bujold. Alastair Reynolds is on my "always read ASAP" list.
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