2023/092: Plutoshine — Lucy Kissick

2023/092: Plutoshine — Lucy Kissick

He came to understand that humans needed, on some deep-seated level, the sight of the Sun in the sky. But why? Why try to light the Martian sky with dangerous mirrors? Why build a vulnerable structure on the Mercurian surface below its searing heat, and not move sensibly underground? The Sun, he decided, was a tyrant. [loc. 1665]

Lucian Merriweather is a solar engineer, part of a team of terraformers who've come to Pluto (no longer a planet, in this near-future solar system, but very definitely a world) to bring sunlight and warmth to this furthesy outpost of humanity. There, Lucian and his colleagues find a thriving community, with indie and folk bands, gardens, a swimming pool, cake, cider and -- possibly, terrifyingly -- a saboteur.

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