Trade
Paperback
ISBN 1-58715-510-9
$12.99
Karl Krabbe and Boris Bouche, partners, explorers, interstellar chancers,
don't care much for the law. They don't care much for anything -- except
profit. Their staff bondman nuclear engineer Roncie Northrop doesn't care
much about anything either, except that he's already tried to abscond
from
the control of the rapacious and illegally operating pair once. When K&B's
exploration ship comes upon the small planet Tenacity, they see a good
business opportunity. Tenacity is waterless, a desert planet. But it had
water once, and they realize that with some adroit but spectacular
geological engineering it can be given its oceans back. That suits the
dominant lobster-like Tlixix fine. They are tired of living like aliens
in
their domed refuges. Of course, the numerous intelligent species which
have evolved since the great dehydration will perish, but so what? As
for
Roncie, whose part in the project is crucial, he doesn't like it much,
but
what can he do? He's only a bondman. Krabbe & Bouche strike a deal,
and
business is business....