PUSHING ICE
by Alastair Reynolds

I wish I’d written this ...

... because no other author can make space feel so ... BIG!

The plot meanders in places, tighter editing wouldn’t have gone amiss, attitudes pertaining to gender and sexuality are a bit dated, and the author throws in far too many elements in the final quarter, but this is such a thoroughly entertaining novel that those faults are easily dismissed. Huge ideas and well-rounded characters make for a brilliant page-turner. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

From the publisher

2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. But when Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever out of reach.

In accepting this mission she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny-for Janus has many surprises in store, and not all of them are welcome ...