![]() Meanwhile in 1999 London, physicists Kearney and Tate-remembered in 2400 as the fathers of interstellar flight-are getting nowhere. ![]() 25th-century characters include a woman who's sacrificed almost everything to merge with the AI "mathematics" of a crack military spacecraft a former daredevil who once surfed black holes but has retreated into a virtual reality tank the lady proprietor of the Circus of Pathet Lao, with an alien freakshow and a hidden agenda and a variety of raunchy, smelly, gene-sculpted lowlife, some comic, some menacing. A whole dead-end culture is based on beachcombing this rubble of industrial archaeology. Along its accessible fringe, the "Beach", solar systems are littered with crazy, abandoned devices used to probe the Tract since before life began on Earth. ![]() Space-going humanity is the latest of many civilizations to be baffled by the impenetrable Kefahuchi Tract that vast stellar region where an unshielded singularity makes physics itself unreliable. ![]() Light marks that fine writer M John Harrison's first return to the heartland of SF-including spaceships and hair-raising interstellar chases-since his apocalyptic anti-space opera The Centauri Device (1975). ![]()
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