Book description
After the Ural Caspian Oil War, nobody really trusted the EU
government. So why should their extraordinary announcement of first
contact with alien intelligence be believed? Matt Cairns thinks he can
discover the truth. It is out there, but much, much further away than
he could have imagined. Thousands of light-years from Earth, a human
colony is struggling for survival. The world on which they have
settled, however, has already been inhabited by humans - and other
intelligent species from Earth - for millennia. In that ancient
division of labour, humans do have a place. But where is it?
Twenty-first-century political intrigue becomes space opera on an
epic scale in Ken MacLeod's first book in a dazzling new series. His
most ambitious novel to date, it will take one of Britain's most
exciting new science fiction authors to even greater heights of
success and critical acclaim. More information on this book and others
can be found on the Orbit website at www. orbitbooks. net
Since graduating from Glasgow University in 1976, Ken MacLeod has
worked as a computer analyst in Edinburgh. He now writes full time.
