Which four-letter sci-fi novel drives Sol to safety?

December 1, 2009 10:38 PM

Bookhunt: What's the name of a sci-fi novel involving giant engines forming in a ring shape around the Earth? I seem to remember the title being a word with four letters in it.

I also seem to remember it involving a plan which involved forming a cone-shaped jet firing miniature black holes outward from the Sun in order to move the Solar System somewhere else at relativistic speeds.

It also had a transhuman woman who derived her near-godlike powers from a super-computer made from a ball of self-sustaining plasma and super-cold zero-point energy. She died in the beginning of the novel from a space/skydiving accident.

Thanks in advance!

posted by CrystalDave to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

Was it by Stephen Baxter?

I'm guessing it probably isn't Feersum Endjinn?
posted by Artw at 11:30 PM on December 1, 2009

Response by poster: I thought it was Stephen Baxter at first, but none of his books are it.

And nope, it isn't Feersum Endjinn. (good book though)
posted by CrystalDave at 11:52 PM on December 1, 2009

Best answer: Cusp, by Robert A. Metzger?
posted by teraflop at 12:28 AM on December 2, 2009

Possibly SPIN by Robert Charles Wilson?
posted by OolooKitty at 12:36 AM on December 2, 2009

You aren't conflating aspects of HALO (the video game) are you? Fairly sure you aren't but almost all the aspects you mention have equivelants.
posted by Iteki at 2:56 AM on December 2, 2009

Response by poster: Cusp! That's it! Thank you ever so much.
posted by CrystalDave at 7:44 AM on December 2, 2009