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The crew of the Rockhopper IV know a lot about blowing up comets, but not much about first contact with ultra-advanced aliens. And the crew are not alone, for each chamber contains an alien culture dragged into this cosmic menagerie at the end of time. Ice shoves are caused by ocean currents, strong winds, or temperature differences pushing ice onto the shore, 3 creating piles up to 12 metres (40 feet) high. Rockhopper IV, trapped in the pull, is hurled across time and space into the deep, distant future, arriving in a vast, alien-constructed chamber. The icy mantle peels away to reveal that it was never a moon in the first place, just a parked spacecraft, millions of years old, that has now decided to move on. This is a book which dares to push the boundaries of science fiction to their fracture point and.

I am hoping hell make a sequel to Pushing Ice. Alastair Reynolds Pushing Ice is pushing much more than ice. Around Saturn, something inexplicable happens: one of the moons leaves its orbit and accelerates out of the Solar System. Alastair Reynolds is one of the best newcomers when it comes to hard sci-fi.

Her crew are tough, blue-collar miners, engineers and demolition experts. On the cold edge of the system, Bella Lind, captain of the huge commercial spacecraft Rockhopper IV, helps fuel this new gold rush by attaching mass-driver motors to organic-rich water-ice comets to move them back to the inner worlds. Genre: Action and adventure, Novel, Science fiction,ĭescription: Some centuries from now, the exploration and exploitation of the Solar System is in full swing.