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Erie Brown is back - and he bas fire in his belly. Recommended.'    Stephen Baxter

The 22nd century. The massive starliners that depart from the orbital transit terminals have taken humankind to hundreds of colony planets. But for Bennett, jaded tug pilot, a life beyond Earth is just a dream. Until the Mackendrick Foundation hir-es him to pilot a lightship to the Rim world of Penumbra - and a fateful meeting with a mysterious alien race.

On the teeming streets of Calcutta police Lieutenant Rana Rao has no time to consider the stars. She has just been promoted from working with the street-children to the Homicide division... and into the path of a serial killer.

For wherever man goes, he takes darkness...

Reviews for ERIC BROWN

‘A deft understated touch: wonderful’ new scientist

SF infused with a cosmopolitan and literary sensibility... accomplished and affecting’ Paul McAuley, interzone

‘Stories which are the essence of modern science fiction and yet show a passionate concern for the human predicament and human values’    Bob Shaw

C0VER 1LLUSTRATION BY CHRIS MOORE

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