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Cover art: Vincent Di Fate
Blurb: “WRITTEN AT THE LEVEL OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE AT HIS BEST-WITH DEFT CHARACTERIZATION, PELLUCID HANDLING OF SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS, GOOD WORLD BUILDING AND REAL WIT-THIS IS ARGUABLY SHEFFIELD'S BEST BOOK YET."
- Booklist
Twenty-five years ago there was a great interplanetary war in the Solar System. It was a suicidal spasm in which terrible weapons were created and used; in which nine billion people were killed, The rivalries that led to the war are not gone. And a few of those deadly weapons remain - some still orbiting the sun in the debris of destroyed ships, some deliberately placed in storage.
"COLD AS ICE IS A GREAT PAGE-TURNER AND MORE.
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UNBEATABLE EXTRAPOLATION."
-Joe Haldeman
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And caught between them are three remarkable young people: Jon.
Perry, Camille Hamilton; and Wilsa Sheér.
"SHEFFIELD, A PHYSICIST, PROVES TO BE ONE OF THE MOST IMAGINATIVE, EXCITING TALENTS TO APPEAR ON THE SF SCENE IN RECENT YEARS." - Publishers Weekly”