Publisher's Synopsis
A colony world rushes into futurity. Mosquitoes save the life of an aging docent. Hector the centaur is eager to shape events, A lingering group of nuket insists on making history.Our view turns from Paeon. Seedship Soo is ambitious to clear the Paeon system of dangerous comets. Of all the seedships of local history, she means to be the last and best.Paeon will send out seedships of its own, further into the Tuscana region of space, and in less than twenty thousand years.
