Dark as Day | Charles Sheffield | Science Fiction | Science Fiction | eBooks
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In this sequel to his novel Cold as Ice, Charles Sheffield returns to the human-settled solar system in the years after the Great War that nearly wiped out the human race. The Earth is recovering -- at least in the southern hemisphere. Mars has a small population, and the asteroids and moons of Jupiter and Saturn are thriving centers of trade and research. On one of those moons, Alex Ligon, scion of a great interstellar trading family, has turned his back on the family business in favor of mathematics. He has developed an incredibly accurate new population model. But when he extends the model a century into the future, it predicts the complete destruction of the human race. On another moon, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence goes on, undaunted by generations of failure. A new recruit finds a signal -- one coming from outside the solar system. In his new retreat on a minor moon of Saturn, a cranky genius collects weapons from the Great War. He |
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