Sheffield Charles » Starfire

The sky is falling — again. Following up on 1998’s excellent , subjects planet Earth to yet another cosmic blast from the Alpha Centauri supernova. But while the blast that hit Earth in simply cooked the Southern hemisphere and knocked out unshielded technology with a flash of gamma rays, this wave promises to do some real damage, with a sleet of trillion-nuclei bundles moving at one-tenth the speed of light.Warned by the first catastrophe, Earth began building an electromagnetic shield out of the orbiting station to divert the incoming apocalypse. But not only will the storm come earlier than ...

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