By Arthur C. Clarke, Paul Preuss
Venus major is a chain of six technology fiction novels written by means of Paul Preuss, in keeping with characters and destinations in Arthur C. Clarke's brief stories.
The tales contain Sparta, a gorgeous and mysterious lady with complex talents, the manufactured from complicated biotech engineering. however the reminiscence of the final 3 years is long gone, and Sparta makes an attempt to get better her prior, and store her future.
Volume 6 - The Shining Ones written in 1991 (based at the 1964 brief tale "The Shining Ones")
World-renowned professor J.Q.R. Forster's day trip to Jupiter's moon has no longer confirmed uneventful. In a livid blaze of ice-geysers, the moon's floor rips off to bare an historical alien world-ship. but if the world-ship all at once hurtles via area towards a black gap, Sparta needs to discover why, and shortly, from a mysterious alien from an unknowable tradition, little understanding that what's approximately to spread will ascertain the way forward for Earth. because the alien craft charts its historical direction, the scheming Sir Randolph Mays and Sparta unwittingly head for his or her ultimate plow through the eons in the middle of an historic galactic civil war.
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