In the late nineteenth century, a seemingly ordinary woman embarks on an extraordinary adventure in the Alaskan gold fields--after her destiny is revealed to her by something not of this world.
The author David Brin calls one of the best prophetic writers of our times has crafted a tale in which the future of humanity is intertwined with the destiny of Rosa Tolliver--an ordinary woman in the days after the Civil War, trying to make a new life for herself in the Alaska...