num_pages: 460
description: 2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. And they're good at it. The Rockhopper is nearing the end of its current mission cycle, and everyone is desperate for some much-needed R &amp; R, when startling news arrives from Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed. As layers of camouflage fall away, it becomes clear that Janus was never a moon in the first place. It's some kind of machine-and it is now headed toward a fuzzily glimpsed artifact 260 light-years away. The Rockhopper is the only ship anywhere near Janus, and Bella Lind is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever out of reach. In accepting this mission, she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny-for Janus has more surprises in store, and not all of them are welcome.
language: English
title: Pushing Ice
titlecomplete: Pushing Ice
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Aliens, Space Opera, Hard Science Fiction, Audiobook, Space, Fantasy, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy
ratings_count: 18753
places: Rockhopper
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award
publisher: Gollancz