by Jerry Vanderstelt
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Format: Book: Paperback
Language: English
Published by: Pocket Books
ISBN-10: 0743411307
ISBN-13: 978-0743411301
Length: 288
Published On: 2003-07-01

From award-winning science fiction writer S.P. Somtow comes Captain Picard’s mos challenging dilemma: should he kill an innocent child to save a billion others? The inhabitants of Thanet believe that once every five thousand years the Death-Bringer destroys their world in a torrent of fire in order to herald a new cycle of creation — and the eve of destruction is almost upon them. Billions will die. To Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise, the Death-Bringer appears to be nothing more than a rogue comet, and one that could easily be destroyed. But Picard’s position is challenged when his Counsellor, the empath Deanna Troi, discovers that the comet is alive…