"Fast-paced, gripping hard SF with death in hard vacuum waiting at
every turn." -- Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Adrian Tchaikovsky
AD 2118. Humanity has colonised the Moon, Mars, Ceres and Europa.
Captain Ellisa Shann commands Khidr, a search and rescue ship with a
crew of twenty-five, tasked to assist the vast commercial freighters
that supply the different solar system colonies.
Shann has no legs and has taken to life in zero-g partly as a result.
She is a talented tactician who has a tendency to take too much on her
own shoulders. Now, while on a regular six-month patrol through the
solar system, Khidr picks up a distress call from the freighter
Hercules...
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