One's Aspect to the Sun

Captain Luta Paixon of the far trader Tane Ikai needs to know why she looks like a woman in her thirties¿even though she¿s actually eighty-four. She isn¿t the only one desperate for that information. The explanation might lie with her geneticist mother, who disappeared over sixty years ago, but even if her mother is still alive, it¿s proving to be no small task to track her down in the vast, wormhole-ridden expanse of Near-space.