A look at the book Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003) by British sci-fi author Alastair Reynolds. The first novella "Diamond Dogs", concerns the exploration of a deadly tower on an uncharted alien world; the second novella "Turquoise Days" is set on an ocean world inhabited by the mysterious, alien "pattern jugglers".

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