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Author Index S	Charles Sheffield
Title Index S	Summertide


Year	1990
Publisher	Victor Gollancz
ISBN	0575050217

Synopsis	Book One of the Heritage Universe Quake and Opal circle Mandel, itself half of a binary star system. Once every 350,000 years, the second sun, together with the great gas planet Gargantua swing in close enough to form the Grand Conjunction. At this time, land and sea tides sweep Quake on a scale that no human has ever witnessed. But they are about to. Once Quake and Opal were joined by the great artefact known as the Umbilical, constructed by an ancient race known only as the Builders. At the time of the Grand Conjunction there are those who are drawn by the secrets of the past to Quake and the Umbilical - but why have they come, and what are they in search of?

Review	"Sheffield has extended his storytelling abilities beyond mere gadget science fiction. Sublime hard science fiction." The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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	Credit: NASA
Viewing Earth This computer generated image depicts a view of Earth as seen from the surface of the asteroid Toutatis on Nov. 29, 1996. Toutatis currently approaches Earth once every four years, and on Nov. 29th, 1996 was 5.2 million kilometers (3.3 million miles) away.
NASA Image of the day archive

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