Michael McCloskey

The People's Republic of China dominates half the globe, balanced only by the combined power of the decaying Western world. As main players in a new age of expansion, the Chinese reach outward to establish many stations throughout the solar system. Sun Xinmei is a bold and devious young graduate of Tsinghua University …

Nine mysterious Spinners silently seize control of deep space stations millions of miles from Earth. But what do these creatures want? Why have they come to the solar system? Ingenious is not a conventional sequel to Industrious, rather, its events are concurrent with events in Insidious and Industrious.