Blister
A.S. Howe (2013). Blister. Science Fiction novel. ISBN 13-978-0985076542. Amazon.com.
A generation after Waterball, Mother’s people climb to the ancient orbital station Destiny—and through Bridgestar, a self-assembling gate between the stars—to Blister, a pressurized bubble hundreds of kilometers across packed with wrecked ships in freefall. Flesh crews, rocker-linked Wardens, and newborn digital minds must explore a junkyard megastructure already claimed by scavengers and forgotten wars. Blister is hard core science fiction at its best by A. Scott Howe.
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The Technicians have discovered that their ancestors were fugitives from a space war, stranded on a planetoid consisting almost entirely of water shrouded by incessant storms. Their machines inherited from long ago are beginning to run down and they are unable to find enough resources to maintain them.
Having rediscovered the technologies of space flight, they realize they are surrounded by abundance if only they invest in the infrastructure necessary for obtaining, it. And they are poised to take another leap into the unknown in search of more glues to their origins.
Then they receive a mysterious message from beyond their planetary system. Something out there is interested in who they are and what they know. And at least one critical crew member may be falling in love with whoever is on the other end of the line! Could it be a friend or is it a sinister siren call to their doom?
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