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