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GLACIAL New writer Alastair Reynolds is a frequent contributor to Interzone and has also sold to Asimovs Science Fiction, Spectrum SF, and elsewhere. His first novel, Revelation Space, was widely hailed as one of the major SF books of the year. His most recent novel is a sequel to Revelation Space also attracting much notice, Chasm City. Upcoming is another big new novel, Redemption Ark . His stories have appeared in our Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Annual Collections. A professional scientist with a Ph.D. in astronomy, he comes from Wales, but lives in the Netherlands, where he works for the European Space Agency. In the taut and absorbing story that follows, he takes us to the arid and frozen wastelands of a distant alien planet, where one man must solve an intricate and puzzling mystery before the clock runs out -- and his own life runs out with it. NEVIL CLAVAIN PICKED his way across a mosaic of shattered ice. The field stretched away in all directions, gouged by sleek-sided crevasses. They had mapped the largest cracks before landing, but he was still wary of surprises; his breath caught every time his booted foot cracked through a layer of ice. He was aware of how dangerous it would be to wander from the red path that his implants were painting across the glacier field. He only had to remind himself what had happened to Martin Setterholm. They had found his body a month ago, shortly after their arrival on the planet. It had been near the main American base; a stroll from the perimeter of the huge, deserted complex of stilted domes and ice-walled caverns. Clavains friends had found dozens of dead within the buildings, and most of them had been easily identified against the lists of base personnel that the expedition had pieced together. But Clavain had been troubled by the gaps and had wondered if any further dead might be found in the surrounding ice fields. He had