Product Description

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...

About the Author

S.P. Somtow is the author of more than forty books which have been translated into over a dozen languages. He has also published several hundred shorter pieces -- fiction and nonfiction -- under his birth name of Somotow Sucharitkul. Also an internationally known composer, he lives in Thailand and is related to the Thai royal family.