The award-winning author of Timescape and Eater returns with a gripping new novel occur the same active future as his wildly popular The Martian Race.

Their historic mission to Mars made Julia and Victorthe most well-known astronauts ever. Now, decades later, they are purchased bythe Consortium to Pluto, where they’ll rendezvous with another starship ledby the excellent, arrogant Captain Shanna Axelrod. Here, on the iced ammoniashore of Pluto’s methane sea, Shanna has found out intelligent creaturesthriving in the -300° degree temperatures. But even while their findings shiftfrom the amazing to the inconceivable, the two crews must conquer their ownintense rivalry to work together, for the most remote reaches from the solarsystem are filled with unimaginable wonders … and countless makes that willcrush all human life.