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Lunar Helium-3 mines, a space elevator, Martian microbes, iShields,
theistic tech-savvy terrorists, and a love story. What more could
you want? It's later on in the century, when the Antarctic and
Greenland ice sheets are melting, the seas are rising, polar bears
are only found in zoos, the only ski resorts are near the Arctic
Circle, and the finest wines come from Scandinavia. The only
remaining oil reserves of any significance lie in Africa under the
control of North American Union troops. When renewable sources of
energy failed to live up to their promise, the world turned to
fusion reactors fed by Helium-3 mined on the moon. The
infrastructure constructed to support this option includes a lunar
mining base, a fleet of lunar transport ships, a 35,700 kilometer
high space elevator, and a worldwide evacuated-tube train system
that travels at speeds up to 3,000 kilometers per hour. Johan
Taylor, known as Oxy by his friends, doesn't mind the extremely
long days and equally long nights. He has a great job and works
with people that respect him. Although, it isn't quite as exciting
as the time he had ascended the face of Everest, it isn't exactly
boring, either. And he takes satisfaction in knowing how to keep
the lunar mines running that supply Helium-3 to the Earth's fusion
reactors. However, he doesn't understand what drives the elusive
terrorist group, the Sowers of God, to attack these very same
reactors; or why a former co-worker, and friend, had left the lunar
base to join the group. Oxy longs to rekindle a lost relationship
with Adrianna, the only woman he had ever really loved, but now
she's preparing to travel to Mars to investigate a discovery so
significant, it hasn't even been completely revealed to the
astronauts. But when Oxy finds something on the moon's surface that
entirely defies explanation, it sets him on a course of
self-discovery that will have him rethink his values, re-unite with
someone from his past, and risk his life in the midst of a
cataclysm to rescue those that mean the most to him. His greatest
concern, though, is whether he will ever see Adrianna again.
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