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The Solar System is finally recovering from the Great War – a war that devastated the planets
and nearly wiped out the human race – and the population of the outer moons, orbiting Jupiter
and Saturn, is growing.
On one of those moons, Alex Ligon, scion of a great interplanetary trading family has developed
a wonderfully accurate new population model, and cannot wait until the newly reconstituted
"Seine," the interlinked network of computers that spans the planets and moons and asteroids,
comes back on line. But when it does, and he extends his perfect 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. And to her amazement, Millie Wu, a young genius newly recruited to the project,
has found a signal . . . a signal that is coming from outside the solar system.
And in his new retreat on a minor moon of Saturn, the cranky genius Rustam Battacharyia is still
collecting weapons from the Great War. He thinks he may have stumbled on an unexpected new one...
but he’ll need to disarm it before it destroys the Sun.
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