A Spider Sat Beside Her

Lowry Walker escapes to the stars, taking a graduate position on the new International Space Station. Her dissertation includes gathering Landsat data over Antarctica, now exposed after global warming has melted the ice caps, but her mission is to heal herself after divorcing an abusive husband.However, the danger is just beginning-a terrorist attack on the station embroils her into a political nightmare. In a world drowned by rising seas, territorial battles erupt across the globe-strong governments stealing land from the weak. Canada and America have merged into the United States of Amerada with a corrupt political ring in control. The US Attorney General blames the ISS attack on an Inuit-Eskimo leader, pressuring the tribe to surrender their lands. He threatens Lowry and her family with prison or "accidental" death if they don't testify against the tribe.Lowry discovers the true terrorist is still at large and a second attack on the space station is eminent and . . . suicidal.A work of literary science fiction of 75,000 words, A SPIDER SAT BESIDE HER is a realistic yet allegorical tale of wounds to the heart, the body, the soul . . . and the Earth-a Brave New World for our time.