Jovox
-- an enormous Gas Giant that by means of the quirk of the substance
Jovoxine has developed an entire floating biosphere of life in its outer
atmosphere. Jovoxine is rare, its anti-gravitational properties valued
above all other substances known to man. The colonists that now live on
Jovox to harvest the Jovoxine find themselves caught between the lusts
of a galaxy of worlds that want the resource they have so much in
abundance, and the dangers of the wild cycles of their environment --- a
world of life forms more numerous and more bizarre than can be
imagined. A young colonial survey officer arrives on the Verrhawk,
expecting to quickly discover the reason for the recent
distruptions that have occured in the colonies -- but unready for the
fantastic world of danger (and beauty) into which he is about to
descend. From my story "In Jovian Seas."
