But an encounter with a refugee from the ship-the enigmatic woman who calls herself only Glass-leads to de Ruyter's world being turned upside down. One man has guided the people of Michaelmas through the hardest of times, and given them hope against the wolves: Miguel de Ruyter.When a lone human ship blunders into their system, and threatens to lead the wolves to Michaelmas, de Ruyter embarks on a desperate, near-suicide mission to prevent catastrophe. ystem lie the ruins of human interstellar civilization, stalked by a ruthless, infinitely patient cybernetic entity determined to root out the last few bands of survivors. Read more ISBNĪ stellar new science fiction adventure from the author who redefined space opera, set in his bestselling Revelation Space universe.For thirty years a tiny band of humans has been sheltering in the caverns of an airless, crater-pocked world called Michaelmas. And Dreyfus will discover that to save what is precious, you may have to destroy it. Before long, the Panoply detectives are fighting against something worse than tyranny, in a struggle that will lead to more devastation and more death. But then his investigation uncovers something far more serious than mass slaughter-a covert plot by an enigmatic entity who seeks nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band. ent case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that left 900 people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. His beat is the multifaceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds. Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. The eight stories included in Galactic North are Great Wall of Mars, Glacial, A Spy in Europa, Weather, Dilation Sleep, Grafenwalder's Bestiary, Nightingale, and Galactic North. And everyone tries not to think about the worrying number of extinct alien civilizations turning up on the outer reaches of settled space.because who's to say that humanity won't be next? Set in the Revelation Space universe, this is the first short story collection by the author who has been called one of SF's best and most ambitious novelists. hyperpigs just try to keep their heads down. Only vast lighthugger starships bind these squabbling colonies together, manned by the panicky and paranoid Ultras. Centuries from now, the basic right to expand human intelligence beyond its natural limits has become a war-worthy cause for the Demarchists and Conjoiners.
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