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Clio
Finn is a Dive pilot, one of the very few capable
of guiding a ship into the time stream. But she’s
walking the razor’s edge of burnout—which
no Dive pilot has ever escaped—relying on
drugs to buy her more missions. The future of
Earth may depend on those missions into the distant
past, in search of viable plant species to revitalize
a graying planet. For Clio knows just how high
the stakes are: she and two colleagues have made
a forbidden Dive to the future—and the news
isn’t good.
Then a time Dive brings her team to a lush paradise
that may contain the seeds that could halt earth’s
death spiral. Unfortunately, it looks like more
change than we bargained for—or could possibly
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John
W. Campbell Award Finalist 2004
“Come
find what you have lost . . . .” Heeding
this cryptic message from deep space, the crew
of the starship Restoration journeys from Earth
to a distant planet, hoping to find humanity’s
lost genetic diversity. But with the human race
on the verge of extinction from a mysterious scourge
of dark matter, how can an backward alien world
harbor a remedy? Where, in its jungles and braided
rivers is the source of the message?
The crew, staggering from losses on its long journey,
is now headed by an indomitable old woman and
an untested young officer, Anton Prados. They
will preside over humanity’s first contact
with an alien race so profoundly foreign that
it threatens to tear apart the mission and Earth’s
last hope.
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Phillip
K. Dick Finalist 2003
Zoya
Kundara is Ship Mother to the generation ship
Star Road. Awakened from cold sleep in time of
need, she has counseled its crew for centuries.
But now, the giant starship has returned to earth,
only to discover a world blanketed in a crystalline
substance that resembles ice. As emissary to this
new earth, Zoya must approach its denizens and
bargain for a share of the shrinking lands.
What she finds are groups of humans huddled in
underground techno-warrens and an order known
as the Ice Nuns, seeking control of the physics-defying
crystal mantle. Allies are few and far between,
but somehow Zoya must uncover the secrets of Ice
and halt its expansion. That is, if the snow witches
don’t get her first . . . .
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