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This Charles Sheffield novel isn’t very satisfying at the end, but the journey is a lot of fun. Sheffield creates interesting characters, such as Milly Wu the SETI researcher, the Great Bat, the puzzle master, and Alex Ligon, the computer modeler. Then there’s Sebastian Birch, who has something wrong with him that isn’t ever quite explained. All set in the plausible (to me) world of the settled outer solar system, principally on the moons of Jupiter. I was sorry to learn that Sheffield, a theoretical physicist, died in 2002. This book, his last, is a sequel to Cold As Ice and the Ganymede Club. I’d happily read a dozen more set in this realm. Alas, it is not to be.