Tor (Pan Macmillan):
London: 2007
First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket,
480 pp.
Cover artwork by: Steve Rawlings

“During a war between two planets in the same solar system – each occupied by adapted humans – what is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train. Each is densely packed with either alien technology or some kind of life. They are placed for safety in three ozark cylinders of a massively secure space station. There a female research scientist subsequently falls pregnant, and gives birth to quads. Then she commits suicide – but why?” #36443

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