Few SF writers merge rousing adventure with advanced futuristic technology as skillfully as Alastair Reynolds, * the award-winning author of On the Steel Breeze. In the conclusion of his epic saga, the Akinya family receives an invitation from across the stars and a last opportunity to redeem their name...
Send Ndege

The cryptic message originated seventy light-years away from the planet Crucible, where Ndege Akinya lives under permanent house arrest for her role in the catastrophe that killed 417,000 people. Could it be from her mother, Chiku, who...