Authors: John Barnes
Mother of Storms (82 page)
There is a loud stir in the crowd, as if many thousands of people had turned, seen, and shouted, and then a roar as everyone turns to see. There is a great light in the clouds, and her first thought is that it’s the moon—but it’s much too big for the moon—and then the clouds roll away, and it’s there.
2026RU, from which Louie is throwing Frisbees, in its libration-point orbit out in front of the moon, looms seven times as big as the full moon, for though the core of rock and ice is only a few hundred miles across, the thin cloud of gas and dust it gives off—too thin to breathe, and up close you wouldn’t see it at all—reflects the sunlight brilliantly.
The great, dead city of Monte Alban, where once the heavens were worshipped, and where tens of thousands have just seen a vision of matters as they are, resounds with cheering as the new moon climbs into the sky.
Orbital Resonance
A Million Open Doors
A Million Open Doors
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.
MOTHER OF STORMS
Copyright © 1994 by John Barnes
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
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Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
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eISBN 9781429970662
First eBook Edition : June 2011
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bames, John.
Mother of storms / John Bames. p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
1. Hurricanes—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3552.A677M67 1994
813’.54—dc20
94-607
CIP
First Edition: July 1994
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