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Availability:In StockContributor:Wil McCarthySeries:Rich Man's SkyPublish date:7/7/2026Pages:288
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BaenISBN-13:9781668073322ISBN-10:1668073323UPC:9781668073322Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Science FictionBook Topic:Hard Science FictionSize:9.40 x 6.20 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.477Product ID:SCFFWE55CY
WHO OWNS THE SKY?

The Trillionaires Are At It Again! Can Pirates Save Us?

"A hard science fiction tour de force, populated by memorable characters in a tale of intrigue, adventure, and irresistible market forces." --Linda Nagata

When oligarchs control the space program, is piracy a virtue?

While trillionaires jockey for control of space resources and rogue AIs prowl the Internet, a dangerous alien technology--the Fracture--has fallen into the hands of space pirates who have no idea what they stole. Unfortunately, law and order are hard to come by when you're a million miles from Earth.

Meanwhile, the balance of power, already precarious, has tumbled Cislunar space into an undeclared war. Now, in a race against time, the crew of the CV Defender must track the pirates to their lair before the Fracture destroys the entire Solar System. But in a world this complex, who exactly are the good guys?

Languages:EnglishPublisher:BaenISBN-13:9781668073322ISBN-10:1668073323UPC:9781668073322Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Science FictionBook Topic:Hard Science FictionSize:9.40 x 6.20 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.477Product ID:SCFFWE55CY
Engineer/novelist/journalist/entrepreneur Wil McCarthy is a former contributing editor for WIRED magazine and science columnist for the SyFy channel. A lifetime member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, he has been nominated for the Nebula, Locus, Seiun, AnLab, Colorado Book, Theodore Sturgeon, and Philip K. Dick awards. His short fiction has graced the pages of Analog, Asimov's, WIRED, and SF Age, and his novels include the New York Times Notable Bloom, Amazon.com "Best of Y2K" The Collapsium (a national bestseller), To Crush the Moon, and Antediluvian. He has also written for TV, appeared on The History Channel and The Science Channel, and published nonfiction in half a dozen magazines.

Previously a flight controller for Lockheed Martin Space Launch Systems and later an engineering manager for Omnitech Robotics and founder/president/CTO of Raven Brick LLC, McCarthy holds patents of his own in seven countries, including twenty-nine issued U.S. patents in the field of nanostructured optical materials.

Publisher: Baen

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