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"Once the Queendom of Sol was a glowing monument to humankind's loftiest dreams. Ageless and immortal, its citizens lived in peaceful splendor. But as Sol buckled under the swell of an immorbid population, space itself literally ran out. . . . Conrad Mursk has returned to Sol on the crippled starship Newhope. His crew are the frozen refugees of a failed colony known as Barnard's Star. A thousand years older, Mursk finds Sol on the brink of rebellion, while a fanatic necro cult is reviving show more death itself. Now Mursk and his lover, Captain Xiomara "Xmary" Li Weng, are sent on a final, desperate mission by King Bruno de Towaji-one of the greatest terraformers of the ages-to literally crush the moon. If they succeed, they'll save billions of lost souls. If they fail, they'll strand humanity between death and something unimaginably worse. . . "-- show lessTags
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Took me a while to finish this. Final book in this tetralogy. Story takes a very different turn (that's what makes these books great, their different styles), but it's mostly a road trip and not a particularly exciting one. The deus ex machina ending felt a bit sudden. But: a hopeful message for humanity. Thus ends the Queendom of Sol.
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Wil McCarthy is a novelist, the science columnist for the SciFi channel, and the Chief Technology Officer for Galileo Shipyards, an aerospace research corporation. He has written articles for various publications, including Wired. He lives in Lakewood, Colorado
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- 2005
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