Alastair Reynolds: Pushing Ice (2020, Orbit)
528 pages
English language
Published Sept. 6, 2020 by Orbit.
In 2057, Bella Lind and the crew of the Rockhopper mine comets for their ice, but when Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, inexplicably leaves its orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is assigned to follow it.
In 2057, Bella Lind and the crew of the Rockhopper mine comets for their ice, but when Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, inexplicably leaves its orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is assigned to follow it.
The conflict between the two female leads dragged on and on, I would rather have read about some of the other characters and their experiences instead. The science was interesting though, and so was the fiction about the aliens (although shallow) and those mystical zoo owners.
