A Son of the Rock

The Rock stands alone, untouched, towering over a massive quarry on a desolate mining planet. Sonny has devoted his life to it—protecting it, respecting it, worshipping it.When Alan, a young and ambitious mining engineer, stumbles across Sonny and his primitive and, to Alan, repellent lifestyle, it is an encounter that will profoundly change him. For Sonny is an old man, his past etched in every line of his face, and soon he will die of old age. Alan has his own reasons for not taking the youth drug Euthuol, but it is Sonny, the Rock, and Alan's beautiful, female companion who give shape to them. And all three will haunt him for the rest of his life.A Son of the Rock is a poignant and disturbing novel from a challenging and vivid new voice in science fiction.