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This is an exciting story with a slew of interesting concepts. A life-bearing planet with fierce, interesting predators; remnants of an intelligent but not very advanced civilization; further remains of an advanced technological race; and a rogue gas giant about to collide with this planet. We meet up again with Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins, 20 years after her last escapade in The Engines of God. Hutch leads a “pick-up” team to the planet surface to gather whatever archeological artifacts they can
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I did't like this one as much as Engines of God - it had some decent adventure, but it dragged a lot. I was annoyed by the pundit character - at my crankiest point, I was thinking of him as a low rate Lazarus Long. Meh.
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