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eBook Category: Alternate History
eBook Description: In an alternate reality, a biographer is researching the life of six-term president Al Capone. But there's a secret in Capone's past--and knowing too much about it can be dangerous….

eBook Publisher: Rosetta Solutions, Inc., Published: 1997
Fictionwise Release Date: November 2001

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Words: 7300
Reading time: 20-29 min.
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For over four billion years it hangs suspended at the edge of the solar system, like a fleck of ice balancing on the rim of a martini glass. A puff of snow and dust and gravel among countless others, all delicately poised between the sun's embrace and the cold freedom between the stars, slowly circling the distant point of light through the silent eons since the sun's formation. It belongs with the detritus, the sawdust left over after nature finished working on this untidy spot of the galaxy.

But when the haphazard motions of the galaxy's components send a dwarfish red star passing near, it is one of many dirty icebergs jostled loose from their time-worn grooves. Some scatter outward to drift forever, far from any star. This one, though, falls toward the inner worlds, into the warm, close funnel near the bottom of the sun's gravity well.

So it begins its long slide down. Toward the third planet, where feebly surviving hominids scoop up the hard, rocky result of stellar nucleosynthesis and gravitational attraction, and chip and scrape the first stone tools created in this arm of the galaxy.