Approaching Omega

Mission to locate Earth-temperate planet for colonisation: failed...

1000 years out from Earth base, damage to colony sleeper hangars 1, 3 and 4 sustained... all lives lost... hangars 2 and 5 still operational...

Mission parameters adjusted: Augmentation of colonists to commence...

Request all drones and 'bots to medical units to begin experimentation...

A novella of power and humanity from "one of the very best of the new generation of British SF writers." (Vector) "SF infused with a cosmopolitan and literary sensibility... accomplished and affecting." (Paul McAuley).