Enceladus Station: Fountains (Large Print)

ENCELADUS STATIONA Science Fiction Murder Mysteryby Douglas H AlexanderBeneath six kilometers of ice on Saturn's smallest reflective moon, three thousand souls live in a maze of bored-out tunnels - and someone is killing them.When Lieutenant Mark Grant disembarks at Enceladus Station after eighteen hours of interplanetary transit, he expects a quiet posting. A frontier outpost. A single unsolved homicide. A weary Sheriff who needs help closing the file on Doctor Craig Walters - stabbed in his own laboratory two months earlier with a scalpel buried to the hilt. Routine. Tragic. Already cold.What Grant finds instead is blood on the Research Center floor at four in the morning, no body, no witnesses, and a Governor whose first instinct is to track that blood across the crime scene with the heels of his polished shoes.Welcome to the ice. In the year 2130, humanity has scattered across the outer solar system. The RipJump drive has collapsed interplanetary distances - journeys that once took years now take hours, ships riding naturally occurring tears in spacetime like commuters on a magnetic rail. Mars is settled. Titan is mining. The orbital platforms above Jupiter are old news. And Enceladus - Saturn's icy white pearl, with its impossible geysers shooting from a buried ocean - has become humanity's strangest frontier.

Pagina's: 664, Editie: Large type / Large print, Paperback, Douglas H Alexander