Good condition.Gollancz,2005.First UK edition-first printing(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1).Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) in VGC, with Dj(watermarks inside the Dj cover,small nicks,crease and scratch on the Dj cover,)in GC.Nice and clean pages but with two stain marks on the edges of the pages 115-116,two small creases on the edges of the pages.The book is in better condition than good except for the two stain marks on the edge of the pages and the watermarks inside the Dj cover.251pp.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph .Product Description: The observatory on the moon has the proof. Life on earth will be incinerated in April 2037 by a massive solar flare. It is building down and it is unstoppable. With only 18 months until doomsday mankind must unite and embark on the most ambitious engineering project ever: the construction, at the La Grange point between the sun and the earth, of a deflecting mirror the diameter of our home planet. The price of failure? Extinction. One scientist, an expert on the sun, predicted the flare. One person who knew nothing about the sun nevertheless knew the exact date that life on earth would come to an end. She had witnessed the bizarre time dislocations brought by the 'eyes'. She knows who is responsible. This is hard SF in the grand tradition of the genre
