On the eve of
a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape
continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to uncover her
own bloody past... while a world goes to war with itself.
In the frozen kingdom of Saiduan,
invaders from another realm are decimating whole cities, leaving behind
nothing but ash and ruin. At the heart of this war lie the pacifistic
Dhai people, once enslaved by the Saiduan and now courted by their
former masters to provide aid against the encroaching enemy.
Stretching from desolate tundra
to steamy, semi-tropical climes seething with sentient plant life, this
is an epic tale of blood mages and mercenaries, emperors and priestly
assassins who must unite to save a world on the brink of ruin.
As the dark star of the cataclysm
rises, an illegitimate ruler is tasked with holding together a country
fractured by civil war; a precocious young fighter is asked to betray
his family to save his skin; and a half-Dhai general must choose between
the eradication of her father's people or loyalty to her alien Empress.
Through tense alliances and
devastating betrayal, the Dhai and their allies attempt to hold against a
seemingly unstoppable force as enemy nations prepare for a coming
together of worlds as old as the universe itself.
In the end, one world will rise - and many will perish.
Flying at the Speed of Night . . . Following in the successful footsteps
of his previous short fiction collection ("Lights in the Deep")
award-winning and award-nominated Science Fiction author Brad R.
Torgersen is back with twelve new tales. From the edges of explored
space, to the depths of the artificial soul. At once breaking the limits
of human endurance, while also treading the tender landscapes of the
human heart. Originally appearing in the pages of Analog magazine, Orson
Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show magazine, Mike Resnick's
Galaxy's Edge magazine, and elsewhere, these stories are collected here
for the first time; with commentary and anecdotes from the author.
Introductions by bestsellers L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Kevin J. Anderson, and
Dave Wolverton (Farland.)
It's the eve of the twenty-second
century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from
Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in
tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems
intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches
that shut off self-awareness during combat. And it’s all under
surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself.
Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a
field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a
cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the
Oregon desert, he’s turned his back on a humanity that shatters into
strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. But he awakens one night to
find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history
inside-out.
Now he’s trapped on a ship bound
for the center of the solar system. To his left is a grief-stricken
soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. To his right is
a pilot who hasn’t yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. A
vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows
behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them
all to a meeting with something they will only call “The Angels of the
Asteroids.”
Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks,
the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint
since the origin of thought itself.
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