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Author Index R	Robert Reed
Title Index S	Sister Alice


Year	2003
Publisher	Orbit Books
ISBN	184149125X

Synopsis	Some 10 million years in the future, a thousand trustworthy humans and their cloned offspring have been granted an incredible power. With it they can build worlds wherever they wish and terraform any wasteland. With it they preserved a peace that lasted for eons. But the arrival of a woman as old as the great peace itself generates uncertainty and fear. For she brings with her a dire warning: the tale of an ancient crime that may yet tear the universe asunder.

Review	A far-future epic of god-like humans and their colossal blunders, Sister Alice is a novel of incredible imagination. 'The new century's most compelling science fiction voice' Stephen Baxter

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	Credit: NASA
The Witch's Broom Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light must suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this light was an exploding star and record the colorful expanding cloud as the Veil Nebula. Pictured above is the west end of the Veil Nebula known technically as NGC 6960, but less formally as the Witch's Broom Nebula. The rampaging gas gains its colors by impacting and exciting existing nearby gas.
NASA Image of the day archive

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