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Hilldiggers

During a war between two planets in the same solar system — each occupied by adapted humans — what is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train. Each is densely packed with either alien technology or some kind of life. They are placed for safety in three ozark cylinders of a massively secure space station. There a female research scientist subsequently falls pregnant, and gives birth to quads. Then she commits suicide — but why? By the end of the war one of the contesting planets has been devastated by the hilldiggers — giant space dreadnoughts employing weapons capable of creating mountain ranges. The quads have meanwhile grown up and are assuming positions of power in the post-war society. One of them will eventually gain control of the awesome hilldiggers ...

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 480
  • Publisher
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-1-4050-5500-0
  • EAN
  • 9781405055000
  • Genres
  • fiction, war, fantasy, space, cyberpunk
  • Release date
  • 2007