Heart of the Comet

Gregory Benford and David Brin come together in thisbold collaboration about our near human future in space

Prescient and scientifically accurate, Heart of the Comet is known as one ofthe great hard SF novels of the 1980s. First published in 1986, it tells thestory of an ambitious manned mission to visit Halley’s Comet, alter itsorbit, and mine it for resources. But all too soon, native cells—that might oncehave brought life to Earth—begin colonizing the colonists. As factions battleover the comet’s future—and that of Earth—only love, courage, and ingenuity canavert disaster and spark a new human destiny.