Book description
The Wheel. A ring of ice and steel turning around a moon of Saturn,
and home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth. It's a
bad place to grow up.
The colony has been plagued by problems. Maybe it's just
gremlins, just bad luck. But the equipment failures and thefts of
resources have been increasing, and there have been stories among the
children of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the Wheel. Many of
the younger workers refuse to go down the warren-like mines anymore.
And then sixteen-year-old Phee Laws, surfing Saturn's rings, saves an
enigmatic blue box from destruction.
Aboard the Wheel, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find a critical
situation - and they are suspected by some as the source of the
sabotage. They soon find themselves caught in a mystery that goes
right back to the creation of the solar system. A mystery that could
kill them all.
Stephen Baxter is recognised as one of the world's foremost
science fiction writers. Since 1987, he has published over forty
books, including the Manifold Trilogy, as well as the
award-winning The Time Ships and over a hundred short stories.
He is President of the British Science Fiction Association, a
Vice-President of the H. G. Wells Society, and is also co-author with
Terry Pratchett of The Long Earth series.
Stephen's books have won the Philip K. Dick Award, the John W.
Campbell Memorial Award, the British Science Fiction Association
Award, and have been nominated for several others, including the
Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Hugo Award and Locus awards.
