Wilson Kime has lived seven lifetimes since wormholes made his Mars triumph obsolete—factory worker, executive, planet-buyer, city-builder, rejuvenated again and again into the same hollow restlessness—until the man who beat him to Mars arrives offering command of a starship bound for the sealed Dyson Pair. As Wilson watches the vessel take shape in orbit and christens her Second Chance, the investigator Paula Myo springs an elaborate trap on the terrorist Adam Elvin, only to be outmaneuvered as he scatters his weapons across the city and sheds his very body to vanish. And forty years in the past, a cold-blooded killer erases two lovers from existence, opening a murder mystery whose answer waits buried in a memory that no longer exists. Everyone here is being given another chance—to explore, to escape, to start over—but the price of a second life is everything the first one was.

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