Icicle

<p><strong>Braxton Thorpe has discovered a threat to the entire Solar System but he has a problem: he's dead.</strong></p><p> </p><p> <em>There's interstellar travel wormholes aliens and the threat of inter-planetary war which together with Braxton's personal and wider quest adds up to one hell of an adventure. Not bad for a dead man!</em> -Sebastian J. Brook Editor of <em>Doctor Who Online</em><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> Frozen at death Thorpe 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.</p><p> </p><p> 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?</p><p> </p><p> If you've read Niven's <em>A World Out of Time</em> or Taylor's <em>We Are Legion</em> the opening of <em>Icicle</em> will only seem familiar. Buckle up for a wild ride-you ain't seen nothin' yet!</p>