Book description
Centuries after its catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again
reaching into space. And one young scholar working in the space ship
yard, Clovis colha Gree, could make the difference between success and
failure. For his mysterious lover, Merrial, has seduced him into the
idea of extrapolating the ship's future from the dark archives of the
past.
A past in which, centuries before, Myra Godwin faced the end of a
different space age - her rockets redundant, her people rebellious,
and her borders defenceless against the Sino-Soviet Union. As Myra
appealed to the falling empires if the West for help, she found
history turning on her own dubious past - and on her present
decisions. Decisions which, centuries later, will determine the future
of the new space age. Merrial's people, the itinerant computer
engineers, know this. And they know that the truth they seek lies
within the secret files left by Myra Godwin.
Since graduating from Glasgow University in 1976, Ken MacLeod has
worked as a computer analyst in Edinburgh. He now writes full-time.
