A science fiction novel set at the edge of our solar system. The discovery of a strange virus has drastic implications for the understanding of mankind's place in the universe.
Duncan Schaefer is a chef in the Kuiper Mining Colony, at the edge of our solar system.
He has become infected by a virus that is baffling science.
With the help of his disfigured companion Maxan, he struggles to understand the physical changes his body is undergoing, which is earning him an unwanted celebrity status.
Everyone wants a piece of him.
Schaefer soon learns that the illness has a design of its own, and that there are greater things at stake than just his own life. Can he survive long enough to uncover the mystery of his illness, and make the connection between the physical changes in his body, and the future of mankind’s place in the universe?
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"...My name is Duncan Schaefer. I live and work on the Kuiper Entertainment Station, one of many immense spinning stations that serve the leisure needs of the inhabitants of the Kuiper asteroid belt - a broad ring of stones that orbit the sun out beyond Pluto. This is your future and my present day. I will explain why I am telling you all these things later, but for now, please pay attention to what I have to say, because I have an important message for you..."
A Subtle Armageddon follows in the tradition of C.S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien in defending traditional values in an increasingly secular culture. It deals with the plight of the last man on Earth, who ought to have had it easy. But he is not the la
Pieces of Eight, Part III is a collection of eight novellas to complement the eight in Pieces of Eight, Pieces of Eight, Part II and Pieces of Eight, Part IV.
