This book was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy.

When the Lethe closed in on the Nether wormhole, Cammie was part of the “last shift” awake before the other ten crewmembers would be revived from hibernation. She herself had been out of the cryopod for six months, preparing, taking telescopic measurements, growing anxious . . . and a little bored.

Ever since the mission had departed from the NOOR asteroid hub five years earlier, she’d been filled with anticipation, never doubting that this was her life’s work. The scientific breakthroughs they would gain from the mysterious wormhole made her heart and mind glow, and she could barely focus on anything else. None of the other six awake crewmembers understood her passion, but she counted down the days until

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