Interplanetary sci-fi suspense thriller. In 2300, humans have colonized the inner planets but have left Earth in ecological shambles. A mysterious eco-terrorist group claiming to be aliens is attacking North American Federation planetary bases and satellites. Chrysanthemum Fox is a cybernetically enhanced polymer-repair technician on a research station in the clouds of Venus. Her life of tedium is abruptly transformed when the station's laboratories are bombed and she is implicated as an accomplice.

Private Chrysanthemum Fox is not normal. She is a gray. In the Space Academy, the skins...