What happens when the itch to disappear and start over as someone else becomes impossible to resist? Hired by the missing man's panic-stricken family, seasoned Private Investigator Tony Brady discovers that taking the case is personal for him. His 8-year-old son disappeared long ago from the stree
Playing God
โ Scribed by Zettel, Sarah
- Book ID
- 108443766
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-us
- Weight
- 738 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781480422179
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
To save an alien world, a human architect must risk destroying itFor two centuries, the planet of the Dedelphi has been riven by war. Though delicate, swanlike creatures, the planet's natives are fierce in battle, and their ceaseless conflict has reduced their world to a wasteland. To save themselves and their world, the Dedelphi have forged a fragile peace and called for outside intervention. The Earth corporation Bioverse constructs a plan to heal the shattered planet. It's the most ambitious engineering project the universe has ever seen, and if it backfires, the result will almost certainly be genocide. Hired to oversee the massive undertaking is architect Lynn Nussbaumer. Rebuilding the planet will take decades, and Nussbaumer's first challenge is to arrange for a generation of Dedelphi to live out their lives in orbit around their home. When old conflicts and fresh violence emerge aboard the station and on the planet's surface, she finds that it takes more than a talent...
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