Gregory Benford and David Brin get together in thisbold collaboration about our close to human future in space

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