The sunborn
By: Gregory Benford
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780446611589
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Life on other planets; Interplanetary voyages; Fiction
Description: Their historic mission to Mars made Julia and Victor the most famous astronauts of all time. Now, decades later, they are ordered by the Consortium to Pluto, where they will rendezvous with another starship led by the brilliant, arrogant Captain Shanna Axelrod. Here, on the frozen ammonia shore of Pluto's methane sea, Shanna has discovered intelligent creatures thriving in the -300 degree temperatures. But even as their findings shift from the amazing to the inconceivable, the two crews must overcome their own intense rivavlry to work together. For the most remote reaches of the solar system are filled with unimaginable wonders ... and countless forces that will crush all human life.