Two hundred years in the future, the Moon is emerging from an age of innocence. Once pioneers, the easiest motto for these Lunar families is Cut the politics. They think they are safe from the sophistication and corruption of political intrigue.
William Pierce is searching for absolute zero. No scientist has yet succeeded, and William is almost there… His wife Rho has bought 410 heads, cryogenically frozen centuries before in the hope of resurrection. She thinks she can read them for information.
William doesn’t quite understand that his experiments could distort space and time. Rho doesn’t realise that her heads will bring interference from a new and deadly faction, the devotedly religious Logologists.
Cut the politics. But they can’t. And the politics of this society could destroy much, much more than Rho and William’s work …
Greg Bear is a compelling, story-teller, creating his fiction from state-of-the-art science, real characters and a powerful imagination. His set-pieces are famed, being awesome in scale and undeniably moving. Like the classic SF writers, Bear’s work truly evokes the sense of wonder. He is today’s leading science fiction author.
