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When 17-year-old Toby McGonigal discovers himself lost in space, separated from his family, he desires his next drift into cool rest to be his previous. After all, the earth he' s orbiting is iced and sunless, and the towns are dead. However when Toby wakes again, he' s shocked to discover a thriving globe, a unusual and prosperous galaxy, then one stranger still - that he' s been asleep for 14,000 years. Welcome to the Lockstep Empire, where civilization is retained alive by careful hibernation. Here cool sleeps can keep going decades and waking moments mere weeks. Its individuals make it through for milennia, traveling asleep on long voyages between worlds. Not merely is Lockstep the new centre of the galaxy, but Toby is surprised to discover that the Empire is still ruled by its founding family: his own. Toby's sibling Peter has turned into a horrendous tyrant. Suspicious of the come back of his long-lost sibling, whose rightful inheritance also regulates the lockstep hibernation cycles, Peter perceives Toby as a danger to his program. Now, by using a Lockstep girl known as Corva, Toby must make it through the forces of the new Empire, outwit his siblings, and save human civilization. Karl Schroeder's Lockstep is a grand development in hard SF space opera.
