Drinking Heavy Water
READING AGE 16+
SECOND CONTACT
Aidan Redding’s entire goal for her time in this universe: behave. For once. Discovering seafaring aliens trashes that plan.
The aliens raise questions. Her co-workers raise more.
The answers explain it all. And ruin everything.
On a world where gravity changes every second, Redding finds herself involuntarily allied with a mathematician from Soviet Texas as she races to save not just herself but civilization.
Forget aliens. Nothing threatens Earth’s golden age so much as ordinary human beings.
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Forty-Three
People have invented spectacular things. The Portal. Antibiotics. Moon rockets and the Mars colony, music that guts or heals, stories that grant hope and enlightenment, food that mends souls. My favorite, though? The invention that surpasses all others?
Soap.
Yes, all those arts and machines and triumphs are ……
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