Science Fiction novelette. The crew of the spaceship Juno expect to find a fertile planet ready for colonization. Instead, they discover a fiery grave and a space station filled with corpses. What happened here? A natural disaster… or an alien weapon capable of destroying an entire world? Honorable Mention, Year's Best SF, 2009.Deborah J. Ross is the author of Jaydium, Northlight and the new fantasy series, The Seven-Petaled Shield. Deborah, with the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, also wrote the Darkover novels: The Fall of Neskaya, Zandru's Forge, A Flame in Hali, The Alton Gift, and Hastur Lord.
