![]() ![]() ![]() After the climate change effects are clear, he turns to how this might affect his characters. He’s also clearly interested in the details of the aquaculture rig. Egan spends some time on the black hole and how its passing might affect the solar system. The presentation here skips along in a shorthand version of what I’m sure could have been a lengthy novel. In case you’re wondering, Taraxippus is an ancient demon that frightens horses, and the black hole’s passing is a novel approach to climate change. Can Matt rescue his family? Fight off pirates to get them to safety? Meanwhile conditions are deteriorating in Australia. Matt finds Mandjet has become part of a flotilla aiming to settle in Antarctica. As the perihelion summer arrives, refugee populations migrate north and south, looking for livable temperatures. Matt tries to get his family in Australia to join him on the rig, but they refuse. When the twin back hole Taraxippus passes the solar system, it pulls the Earth into a different orbit, increasing summer heat in the Southern hemisphere to life-threatening levels. Matt is the designer and operator of a self-sustaining aquaculture rig called the Mandjet. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, and the Locus Award. Egan is an Australian mathematician and programmer who has won multiple awards, including the John W. This is a hard science fiction novella published by Tor.com on April 16, 2019. ![]()
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