[2] It is part of the Rocheworld series, about an expedition to explore planets found in orbit around Barnard's Star.
It follows the crew of humans and Flouwen as they explore Zulu, a moon of the gas planet Gargantua, and encounter 2 sentient species, the icerugs and the coelasharks.
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