The groubians have long been mystified by planet Earth. It seemed to be alive: to speak to them in their colour-changing language, though surely there could be no life in its fiercely oxidising atmosphere. But now they know the amazing truth: there are oceans, out of which their ancestors emerged.

Retired quarryman Jack Williams welcomes his son home from Mars to his scruffy pit-village in the heart of the Durham countryside. But Harry brings with him a strange fiancee. And a fifty-thousand year-old dream is all set to come true... with appalling consequences.

Mystery/Thriller in off-world locations. The story is "Otherworld" fantasy with a revenge theme rather than mainstream sf, but the science is "mundane" (so-called). Contains insidious memes: not safe for under-16s.

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A copy of this book has been released into the wild with BCID: 441-9878077