Shepherds of Avalanches

He’s still very young, but he already has a posting aboard “Sisyphus” in place of Izme Des—the living myth. She’s one of those stern captains who live for hundreds of years and command gloomy giants powered by relativistic engines, carving a path for the less long-lived part of humanity.

But in truth, he’s just a guy who decided to hack a cyclopean construction tool—a cosmic bulldozer capable of growing millions of Neumann-like motes.

He has to hide his knowledge and skills and pretend to be a young upstart. And if he only needed to get rid of the captain’s suspicions…