Up Against It - Softcover

Locke, M. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765354217 ISBN 13: 9780765354211

Publisher: Tor Science Fiction, 2012

Synopsis

Jane Navio is the resource manager of Phoecea, an asteroid colony poised on the knife-edge of hard vacuum and unforgiving space. A mishap has dumped megatons of water and methane out the colony's air lock, putting the entire human population at risk.

Jane discovers that the crisis may have been engineered by the Martian crime syndicate, as a means of executing a coup that will turn Phocaea into a client-state. And if that wasn't bad enough, an AI that spawned during the emergency has gone rogue...and there's a giant x-factor in the form of the transhumanist Viridian cult that lives in Phocaea's bowels.

Jane's in the prime of her career—she's only a bit over a century old—but the conflict between politics and life-support is tearing her apart. To save her colony and her career, she's going to have to solve several mysteries at once—a challenge that will put her up against all the difficulties, contradictions, and awkward compromises entailed in the human colonization of outer space.

About this title

About the Author:

M. J. LOCKE is an engineer in the American Southwest with a background in the energy industry. This is Locke's first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0765354217
• ISBN 13: 9780765354211
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 454