Something is alive inside Jupiter’s ice moon, Europa. Robot probes find an ancient tunnel beneath the surface, its walls carved with strange hieroglyphics. Led by elite engineer Alexis Vonderach, a team of scientists descends into the dark… where they confront a savage race older than mankind…
Based on the award-winning short story, The Frozen Sky is a new full-length sci-fi thriller novel from the international bestselling author of Plague Year.
Exciting hard-science SF Exciting hard-science SF for readers who like writers like Hal Clement and Larry Niven. Humans have landed on Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter and the one Solar System body most often predicted by scientists to contain the possibility of life forms. It has a crust covered in ice with what seems to be an ocean underneath. It is also geologically unstable with volcanoes, tremors, and geysers. The ever-shifting alliances of countries on Earth have created a joint crew from China, America,…
Great idea; followthrough was muddy The story had great promise. It seems to get lost in it’s circular yet muddy descriptions of WHAT the protagonistic other race is actually supposed to be. Then the story shifted to making the protagonistic race yet another misunderstood species, sort of like the “noble savage” approach. Frankly, I got lost and tired of rereading passages to make sense of it.
Good novel, but very weak ending Strange novel. Great premise, decent characters, tons of science, great imagination, but ultimately it didn’t really add up, and the ending was an unexpected fizzle. To make a long story short: Life on earth has advanced significantly. We’re now profitably mining Jupiter’s moon Europa. We have space suits that are out-of-this-world (!) advanced. They walk for you, run for you, feed you and carry out extensive medical repairs on you when you’re injured. They fight for you while they repair you…