[Jupiter's Reef 01] • Jupiter's Reef

Alex Rose is on the brink of the greatest discovery in the history of space exploration. And he’ll break every rule in the book to make it. He keeps his criminal record secret. He steals and modifies an interplanetary ship to probe a cosmic storm system three times the size of earth. And he falls in forbidden love with a girl who’s perfect in every way – just as she was engineered to be by genetic scientists on Mars. Posing as a miner on Jupiter’s sulfur moon, Io, Alex is not there for the superpay … just for the Great Red Spot on the giant planet. Something beneath its swirling clouds is alive and has been waiting eons for his arrival. Mary Seventeen is a clone, created to service men and to be a biological radio for communicating to MarsCorp from deep space. Together they will risk everything to meet Alex’s destiny and prove the existence of Jupiter’s Reef of Life. Karl Kofoed is best known to SF aficionados for his famous cover art and the lavishly illustrated documentary-styled Galactic Geographic series in Heavy Metal magazine and the subsequent book, Galactic Geographic Annual 3003: Earth Edition. His imaginative work became part of NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn, providing what the mission chief deemed the most potentially accurate views of the planet’s moons. Kofoed’s uncanny foresight proved itself on the mission and became the water cooler talk of astronomers around the world. Like his illustrated work, Jupiter’s Reef, Kofoed’s first science fiction novel, lures the reader with a palpable and thrilling sense of a world as alien to humans as it is full of wonder … and danger.