Sly Mongoose

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Author: Tobias S. Buckell

ISBN-10: 0765319209

ISBN-13: 9780765319203

Category: Science Fiction - Strange & Alien Worlds

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Floating cities on a Venus-like planet must fight off an invasion of infected "zombies.Publishers WeeklyBuckell returns to the universe of Crystal Rain(2006) and Ragamuffin(2007) for another action-packed story of human colonists fighting to survive on an alien world with all the odds against them. The story bounces between two protagonists: teenage Timas, one of the few inhabitants of the floating spherical city of Yatapek who can maintain the enormous mining machine that harvests ore from the furnace-hot surface of Venus-like Chilo, and Pepper, aka Juan Smith, an elite Ragamuffin soldier from New Anegada who'd prefer to forget about his violent past. As the only survivor of a ship infected with a virus that turns people into murderous zombie slaves of the alien Swarm, the last thing Pepper wants is another fight, but with the Swarm making inroads on Chilo, he has little choice. Buckell delivers double helpings of action and violence in a plot-driven story worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster. (Aug.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.