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Putting Up Roots

A Jupiter™ Novel


CoverPUTTING UP ROOTS

Higher Education by Charles Sheffield and Jerry Pournelle launched the Jupiter™ novels, an ongoing program of exciting science fiction novels based on real science and a positive vision of tomorrow. Putting Up Roots explores an inspiring new future filled with tremendous challenges and opportunities.

Abandoned by his actress mother, Josh Kerrigan tries to settle down on his uncle's farm. But farming on Earth is no longer profitable, so Josh soon finds himself en route to the planet Solferino in the Messina Dust Cloud, twenty-seven light-years from home.

Josh has his hands full on Soiferino, struggling to understand a whole new ecosystem while keeping an eye on his autistic cousin, Dawn. Life gets even more complicated, however, when Dawn makes contact with a mysterious alien creature. The experts all say there is no intelligent life on Solferino, but what if they're wrong?

Cover Art by Vincent Di Fate


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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First Printing, September 1997 by Tor Books

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sheffield, Charles.
Putting up roots : a Jupiter novel / Charles Sheffield.
p cm.
ISBN 0-312-86241-5 I. Title.
PS3569.H39253P87 1997
813' .54—dc21 97-16926
CIP

First Edition: September 1997
Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-0-312-86241-1
ISBN-10: 0-312-86241-5

Copyright© 1997 by Charles Sheffield

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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