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Falling Stars
Tor, Feb 2001, 25.95, 414 pp. ISBN: 031287443X Through insider trading a scandal destroyed a highly regarded company and led to a depressed economy. The dip forced the Treasury to move massive finances to keep social security afloat. Layoffs and bankruptcies became the norm and leaders turned narrow-minded and short sighted. In 12017 scientists predict that an asteroid will ravage the earth in 2023 unless money is appropriated to crea...
In The Country Of The Blind
Tor, Aug 2001, 27.95, 428 pp. ISBN: 0312874448 In Denver realtor Sarah Beaumont and her architect explore the possibilities of the old vacant house. They quickly find a reference to a late nineteenth century gunfight in which an innocent bystander, Brady Quinn, a former owner of this house, was the only victim. They also find a list of other seemingly unrelated events from the second half of the nineteenth and throughout the twentieth centu...
The Wreck of the River Stars
Tor, Apr 2003, 27.95, 480 pp. ISBN: 0765300990 Today's technology is tomorrow's junk. For instance, The River of Stars was a luxurious passenger liner that used immense magnetic sails to catch the solar wind. However, the invention of the Farnsworth fusion drive turned the sailing ships obsolete. The River of Stars is the last one still operating as it hauls cargo between Jupiter and the asteroid belt. However, its sails are never used, as th...