Wide Brown Land: stories of Titan: 2 (Titan Sequence)

Light levels are low. Its killingly cold. These conditions are it transpires connected.The icy landscape around you--hillocks boulders ravines foregrounding a hazy rumpled horizon beneath an opaque lowering sky--wears a patina that shades from sepia to umber puddled with drifts of dark sand. The atmosphere though thick would permit only a parody of respiration: there is no succour in it. Were it not for the insulating carefully-regulated containment of your suit you would be dead within minutes frozen solid within an hour.Welcome to Titan.Wide Brown Land is a collection of hard science fiction short stories set in the settlements and badlands of Saturns haze-shrouded moon Titan where the landscape is as formidable a foe as the most determined adversary.