This book is part of a book series called Starscape .

There are 255 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Turtleback Books .

Charles Sheffield is a mathematician and theoretical physicist by training. His doctoral work was on Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Currently Dr. Sheffield works as chief scientist for the Earth Satellite Corporation, a Washington, D. C. -based firm that specializes in the analysis of data gathered from space. The author of thirty previous science fiction novels, including" Cold as Ice" and" The Ganymede Club" from Tor, Sheffield lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, author Nancy Kress.