The View from Ararat (UQP Young Adult Fiction)

Rating:
Summary: Ararat is great!
Review: Best Book ever! Very exciting entire way through. Complex plot. I've never read a book twice in my 15 years, but I think I'm going to read it again... and again!

The book is placed far in the future, and there is a horrible outbreak on Earth, in an ore mining factory of something can, "live," on any surface, animate or not, for centurys. One touch infects you're blood and turns it to crystal. It is untreatable, and fatal within two days. This outbreak is kept entirely secret by the mining corporation on Earth. On the new planet, Deucalian, Galan, a researcher, finds out about this outbreak. It takes 40 years to get from Earth to Deucalian, and Galan realizes that several shuttles from Earth are due to arrive very soon. The government has the out worlders quarintined, but it doesn't work. There is a horrible outbreak of "Crystal Death," as it's called, on Deucalian, while there is no cure, and no way to contain the outbreak...