Angel Station Author:Walter Jon Williams ORPHANS, born in the depths of OF DEEP SPACE...a brother and sister who own a spaceship that operates on the margins, trading between human settlements on planets and high orbital stations out on the edges where operations and profits are being squeezed by the big companies, they're outlaws now. Genetically engineered to be expert star... more » pilots, created to serve a function grown obsolete, haunted by the holographic ghost of the father who had created themr, Ubu, agile, strong bossrider of the starship, and Maria, ace star-shooter and cybernetic witch, have lived their entire lives skating along the edge of extinction.
Now they and their ship Runaway are in flight both from the law and from a predatory clan of competitors. They're going to come back rich, or not at all. But what they find in the depths of space isn't wealth, but a secret so startling that Ubu and Maria will need every last reserve of guile, cunning, and intelligence just to survive, to risk everything on one last, desperate gamble that could win them the universe, or destroy them forever.« less