Some years after the events of Great Wall of Mars, the Conjoiners have escaped the solar system and are busy trying to find a new home.

Enter planet Diadem, which the Conjoiners discover has already had human visitors and a settlement.   But something went wrong and they're all dead -- or maybe not quite all of them.

And then there's the worms.

Another great story from Alastair as he feeds us more info on the abilities of Conjoiner minds and we get to know our protagonist, Clavain, a little bit more too.

Available in the collection, Galactic North.

And now, without hesitation, it's straight into Night Passage, the third book in the Revelation Space Universe. ( )

Clavain is the solver of the puzzle of why everyone on a remote US base on Diadem, a frozen planet, died. The Americans appear to have succumbed to an unknown disease, but the only life form is a simple worm, which infests large areas of the surface. A man is found helmetless, having written the letters 'IVF' as he died. Clavain's fellow Cojoiners, despite forming a linked group mind, miss the clues that he follows. ( )