One hundred years after the Revolution, the planet Deucalion enjoys a model society and life is good. But everything is about to change. Death arrives one day on the C-ship, Pandora, and suddenly no one is safe. Overnight, the old rules no longer apply. When every decision is a matter of life and death, when every friend is a potential threat, and when people can trust no one but themselves, how deep does civilization really run? In the sequel to the award-winning Deucalion, Brian Caswell ventures a century further into his vision of humanity's future. View from Ararat is the second novel in the Deucalion Sequence trilogy.