Guy Stanger is a scout just coming of age on the icy world of Asgard. Scouts have been waiting for decades for Colony Day, the arrival of the breakthrough colony, and now it’s here.
Using a soliton drive, the colonists have traveled from Earth at the speed of light, leaping across space and time in an instant. Now they are 25 light years from home, expecting the scouts to help them learn to live on a world gripped by an ice age, and Guy is prepared to do all he can.
This is not your grandfather’s space colony. Nineteen ships and 100, 000 colonists, ready to land. But someone is standing in the way …
Guy and the colonists aren’t expecting the Kolbergs – a party from an earlier expedition to another star – who already have arrived on Asgard before Colony Day. As the scouts and colonists wrestle with the problems of the new world, they also struggle with a big question: What do the Kolbergs want?
Several sections of the novel first appeared in Analog.
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I’ve done a lot of things that would be really impressive if someone else had done them.Sailed around the North Atlantic for two years in a Coast Guard cutter, rode the big waves, came back to New York and rode the subways without holding on, helped fly a kite up the middle of the English Channel.Got a degree in journalism at UConn, but skipped classes, slept in the office at the Daily Campus two or three nights a week, covered the 1980 presidential election in Mass., N.H., and Illinois, followed John Anderson around, graduated the day Mt. St. Helens erupted. Worked as a correspondent for the Hartford Courant, quit to cover the statehouse for the Connecticut State News Bureau, got fired for writing a story for the New York Times. Wrote for the Times for a year. Interviewed Ben Bova, called Paul Newman’s agent for a story on his Hole in the Wall Gang camp for sick kids, prompting a major press event at the camp where I got a 5-minute private interview with Newman. Got a job at the Journal Inquirer. First assignment, meet with a whistleblower in a janitor’s closet at the state police academy. Met Buzz Aldrin at a SFWA Editors & Publishers event, met him again two days later at a NASA event and got a 5-minute private interview.There’s more, but you’ll have to read the book.
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