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Lucy Kissick.
Plutoshine.
Gollancz. 2022

Four billion miles from home.
Two hundred degrees below zero.
Welcome to Pluto.

Engineer Lucian builds suns – of a sort.
Through solar mirrors and captured asteroids, he and his team are set to flood this frozen worldlet with warmth and light in the Solar System’s most ambitious terraforming project yet.

What nobody factored in was a saboteur – one willing to wield reactors, asteroids, even moons to achieve their ends.

Ten-year-old Nou searches for life – or used to.
Wholly mute, traumatised by an accident that tore her family and the base apart, her elder brother is determined to keep her that way … only adding to Lucian’s intrigue. If he could reach her, perhaps he could understand what happened – and what she knows of the underworld of Pluto.

For what Nou has to say could stop the terraforming forever – and transform our place in the Universe.