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Title:
Pushing Ice
Genre:
Science Fiction
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Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1st
Narrative:
Third Person
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Pages:
514
Number of Chapters:
41
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:43:19
Synopsis:
The burgeoning new economies in near-Earth space are fuelled by a steady stream of comets, steered back home by huge nuclear-powered mining ships like Bella Lind’s Rockhopper. They call it pushing ice.
Bella and her crew are desperate for some much needed R&R - until Janus, one of Saturn’s ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit. As it heads out of the Solar System at high acceleration, layers of camouflage fall away: it appears that Janus was never a moon in the first place. Now this moon-shaped machine is approaching the star system Spica, two hundred and sixty light-years away.
Rockhopper is the only ship anywhere near Janus, so Bella agrees to catch up and shadow the machine-moon for the few vital days before it falls for ever out of reach. But in doing so she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny that will test friendship and loyalty to the limits: for Janus has more surprises in store - and not all of them are welcome.
Pushing Ice is a trademark Alastair Reynolds novel: a deep space adventure story with a scope as big as the Galaxy itself.
Bella and her crew are desperate for some much needed R&R - until Janus, one of Saturn’s ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit. As it heads out of the Solar System at high acceleration, layers of camouflage fall away: it appears that Janus was never a moon in the first place. Now this moon-shaped machine is approaching the star system Spica, two hundred and sixty light-years away.
Rockhopper is the only ship anywhere near Janus, so Bella agrees to catch up and shadow the machine-moon for the few vital days before it falls for ever out of reach. But in doing so she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny that will test friendship and loyalty to the limits: for Janus has more surprises in store - and not all of them are welcome.
Pushing Ice is a trademark Alastair Reynolds novel: a deep space adventure story with a scope as big as the Galaxy itself.
Author:
Alastair Reynolds
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Publisher:
Gollancz Science Fiction
Barcode:
9780575078154
Publication Year:
2005
Copyright Year:
2005
Number of Copies:
1
Language:
English
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$6.61
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-05-02
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:43:19
