Ice and Mirrors
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Publication date:
2001-02
Publication type:
Short Story
Published:
Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2001
Setting:
Walker & Keenan
Characters:
Walker & Keenan
Summary:
Two recent graduate students are employed by the Thray to sign off that the iceworld of Trine, which is an intended target for terraforming, is free from sentient life. To their surprise, Kimber Walker and her assistant Eric Keenen find evidence of a recent stone-age civilization buried in the ice, and suddenly the Thray have started to act suspicious....
Notes:
Collaboration, co-written with Brenda Cooper
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