About the Book
To every stratum there are the fossils: Precambrian flatworms and
Devonian fishes, Triassic dinosaurs and Jurassic reptiles. These are the
certainties, each in his own place, bearing witness to evolution, to
order.
So there's something a mite disturbing about a lump of
coal with a 1909 coin embedded in it, a Neanderthal skull with gold
fillings, a plesiosaur grasping an End Nuclear Testing Now placard.
Then the business of a new world discovered hanging out ther in deep
space. A flat earth, Oblique Area-true Projection on top, pretty much
of a blank underneath. Like any normal hot-blooded 200-year-old
multiple divorcée, Kin Arad decided it all needed a checking out,
signed up her team – a multi-armed berserker and a huge, gentle
cannibal, furred alien – and set out...
