Summertide

by Charles Sheffield

Book Overview

It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest to their sun, subjecting both -- but Quake in particular -- to vast tidal forces. And it was to be the most violent Summertide ever, due to the Grand Conjunction of the system's stars and planets, something that happened only every 350,000 years. Access to the unstable Quake was supposed to be prohibited, but some very insistent travelers were determined...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345369378
• ISBN13: 9780345369376
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"