It's always a mistake to ask what else can go wrong. In the second novel in the epic Gingezel sci fi series Dr. Mitra Kael, Power Systems Engineer, having vowed she would never return to the mining planet Drezvir, is en route to face the consequences of the accident with her reactor. Dr. Durstin Fallor, Chief Power Engineer on the planet, is facing those consequences in a much more real way. He is struggling to keep the colony alive in a red blizzard. With Mitra's abrupt departure from her idyllic vacation on the pleasure planet Gingezel she does not manage to get hold of her lover Dreen. This leaves Dreen frantic to find Mitra but he has other problems. His hackers are losing their battle. His VP of Marketing is in for emergency surgery requiring Dreen to return up to H.O. on Tranus. Just as he's about to leave, musician friend Bojo reveals the truth of his disfiguring 'accident' and asks for dangerous help seeking revenge. Joran desperately wants to help his best friend Dreen and to find Mitra. Unfortunately those aren't the same thing. He has come out of hiding and reclaimed his position as one of the galaxy's top pop stars with a poignant love song to Mitra. Still mentally fragile and fighting his drug addiction, no one, including Joran, knows what he will do. The link between all of these events and characters is Chett Linderson, Nemizcan's VP of Field Operations. Unfolding events force Chett into a decision. Will he go after his dreams, or tear them up and play the hero? Science fiction by scientists.
How do you prove innocence? Proving your complex system and the designs behind it could not cause a reactor accident may be impossible. But the accident did happen and the Drezvir mining colony is dangerously short of power as they head into bitter winter. The Farr Sector Judiciary is taking the case to court with charges of manslaughter due to criminal negligence and they are not likely to be lenient to Outsiders. An expert team of industrial risk analysts have assembled on Drezvir to try to find the cause of the accident, unintentional or otherwise. Dr. Mitra Kael, Power Systems Engineer is giving them all the support she can as various subcontractors arrive from across the galaxy. So is Dr. Dreen Pendi, former head of Nemizcan Computing and Mitra's lover. Dr. Ari Delmaice, President of Delmaice Power Systems, is out to make sure anyone but him takes the fall. Chett Linderson, now head of Nemizcan Computing is not impressed with Ari's attitude and Chett is the get even type. Chett's temper has already made him a dangerous enemy, hacker Klarak Voroth. Joran Lantonelle still means well but is focused on walking back on stage and reclaiming his status as galactic superstar. Bojo Camrail, is trying to keep him in line but he is getting distracted between espionage on his home planet and a romance with Brys, Dreen's best hacker. At least Dreen and Mitra are together at last. Or are they? C.C. Windegren, terraformer and Mitra's childhood friend, is on Drezvir and he is wondering why they have wasted all of these years. As a face from the past appears and Dreen's secrets start slipping out, Mitra finds herself trying to decide just what Dreen is really like. And obviously C.C. and his environmental activist friends have a few secrets of their own. Science fiction by scientists.
You grasp at straws when they are all you have to grasp at. That is what Dr. Dreen Pendi, former head of Nemizcan Computing, thinks he's doing wondering if the reactor overpower on the remote mining planet Drezvir could have been caused by a hack to the control and safety system. But Leeth Kembel, one of the few hackers good enough to have done it is on Drezvir with plenty of motive - a bitter hatred of Dreen for his sending Leeth to prison for hacking when he was a young man. That hatred might have been enough to cause Leeth to agree to help his boss, terraformer C.C. Windegren, sabotage the reactor to prevent import of biohazard waste to the planet. Suspicion is not proof and Dreen cannot bring himself to go to authorities without that proof. It turns into a hacker vs hacker game as the expert team of industrial risk analysts eliminate all but design flaws or quantum computer effects as the cause. Time is running out. Either Dreen or his lover Mitra, Dr. Mitra Kael, designer of the reactor and the chief project engineer, will be charged with manslaughter and face the death penalty unless evidence of the hack can be found. At times like this you need help from your friends. Dreen's hackers Brys and Vennbir are doing what they can, but they need inspiration. Unexpected 'help' from Ghen Kulgalu, the galaxy's drug lord, has Ceb Windegren, one of the most senior members of the Interplanetary Judiciary, en route to Drezvir. He is risking an inter-sector diplomatic incident, but he needs to know if the accident was caused by that son of his, or if there is something even more sinister going on. Science fiction by scientists.
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