Description:

For William Alec Tucker III, the son of rich, guilt-ridden parents, life after death--and cryogenics--provides a gateway to the future, but he soon discovers that he has become a pawn in a vast struggle for power that takes him on an odyssey of discovery that reaches into the vastness of outer space."

Review

...surprises await. All is not what it seems. And you ... are destined to be still more satisfied when this one ends. -- Analog, Tom Easton

About the Author

Allen Steele established himself as a popular and innovative SF writer with his first novel, * Orbital Decay, which focused on the blue collar workers who built the first space station. HE has gone on the publish a number of additions to the "Near Space" near-future sequence, the latest of which is * A King of Infinite Space, as well as completely independent stories such as * The Tranquility Alternative and * The Jericho Iteration. Steele has also published a number of well-received shorter works including "The Death of Captain Future," which won the Hugo Award and was a Nebula finalist.