He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. On his 75th birthday John Perry did two things: First he visited his wife’s grave. And if you survive, you’ll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets. You’ll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. They don’t want young people they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. The bulk of humanity’s resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.Įarth itself is a backwater. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space.

Corey is the pen name used by collaborators Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe. Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations-and the odds are definitely against them. When the trail leads him to The Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks.

A secret that someone is willing to kill for-and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew.ĭetective Miller is looking for a girl. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, The Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. Jim Holden is an officer on an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. Humanity has colonized the solar system-Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond-but the stars are still out of our reach.

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