Read by John Lee

Pushing Ice begins in the distant future, where the elected rulers of
the Congress of the Lindblad Ring gather to decide on a suitable ceremony
to honor a woman they consider responsible for the technological advancement
and territorial expansion of the future human race, Bella Lind. To explain
her role, the chronology is then pushed back to the early days of humanity's
manned exploration of the solar system, where it is explained that Lind is
the captain of the Rockhopper, a spacecraft used for mining cometary ice.
While on a routine mission, Lind is informed that Saturn's moon Janus has
deviated from its normal orbit, and is accelerating out of the solar system.
The Rockhopper, deemed the only ship capable of catching up to Janus,
is asked to undertake the task of pursuing the moon, and sending back as much
information as possible before being forced to turn back by the limitations
of fuel and supplies. However, on their approach to the moon, revealed to be
a camouflaged alien spacecraft, Lind and her crew are caught in the field of
the ship's inertialess drive, causing them to travel further and faster than
expected, and beyond their capacity to return to Earth. Realizing their
predicament, the crew decide to land on the moon and attempt to survive
the flight out of the solar system, wherever it may take them. Eventually
it becomes apparent that ship is heading towards Spica, a close binary pair
in the constellation of Virgo...

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