Icicle

<p>Braxton Thorpe has discovered a threat to the entire Solar System but he has a problem: he's dead.<br /><br />Frozen at death he awakens to find himself uploaded into an electronic matrix. Exploring beyond the matrix and the larger GlobalNet he discovers the Oort a distributed electronic entity older than humanity with an unnerving secret: aliens wiped out nearly all life on Earth once and are coming back to do it again.<br /><br />The mathematical entity that is Thorpe has to find a way to convince humans of the threat and in time to do something about it. But how and what?<br /><br />If you've read Niven's "A World Out of Time" or Taylor's "We Are Legion" the opening of "Icicle" will only "seem" familiar. Buckle up for a wild ride; you ain't seen nothing.</p>