![]() ![]() But she has also taken precautions should her experiments draw the wrath of the authorities, and has stashed another clone in orbit about Saturn. Lilo finds herself working in a secret laboratory hidden in orbit about Jupiter. Just before her sentence is carried out, she’s rescued by Boss Tweed, the mayor of Luna, who also runs a secret organisation dedicating to regaining Earth from the Invaders. ![]() The hero of the novel is Lilo (an unfortunate choice of name to a British reader), a genetic engineer who is sentenced to death for experimenting on the human genome. ![]() This is the “hotline” of the title, a steady stream of advanced science and technology from… who? Humanity has since spread out to colonise the other planets and moons in the Solar System, chiefly thanks to a number of scientific advances taken from a radio broadcast transmitted from somewhere in the vicinity of 70 Ophiuchi, 16.6 light-years from Earth. In the universe of the novel, alien creatures who live in gas giants invaded Earth to save its resident intelligent species, the cetaceans, and only those humans resident off-Earth, on the Moon, for example, survived. ![]()
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