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Cover art: Chris Moore
Blurb: “
Includes
Cosmonaut Keep, Dark Light and Engine City
Imagine human settlements on the far side of the galaxy—a "Second Sphere" of terraformed worlds, linked together by exactly-as-fast-as-light starships. Imagine that humans are the youngest of three intelligent Earth-descended spe-
cies, after the short grey saurs and the ancient, immense, unfathomable krakens. And imagine this all was seeded and guided by strange multi-minded asteroid "gods."
Gregor Cairns was born into this society, on the world Mingulay-the only world ever settled by a human-built starship. Over two hundred years ago, the Bright Star suddenly appeared in the sky, fleeing a dangerous late 21"-century Earth and discovering this unsuspected civilization, tens of millennia old. Bright Star has sat mothballed in orbit since then; her people dispersed (but, some say, all still alive and young).
Gregor, descended from Bright Star's crew, is part of the secret mathematical Great Work of his family of Navigators. Gregor doesn't know what his family has been calculating so carefully by hand, or that the calculations are nearly done.
And he can hardly guess what new worlds will open up before him, what secrets he will learn — or what ancestors of his he may find-once he decides to make the Bright Star fly once again.”