The Worshippers and the Way

Asodo Hatch and Lupus Lon Oliver are the top cadets at the Combat College - fierce rivals and the two best hopes for the Stormforce of the Nexus. Only one of them can graduate as instructor, and their final examination will pit them against each other in a contest where hesitation means losing everything. Praise for The Worshippers and the Way "This is the book where Cook presses the big red button on his worldbuilding... The Worshippers and the Way takes off the brake and dials everything to eleven." - Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugöwinning author of Children of Time "Enemy behind us," said the single¿fighter. So Hatch slammed the fighter into a wrenching turn, a turn so savage he had to tighten his stomach muscles to keep himself from passing out. And there was his enemy. In his sights. The enemy for real? Or a drone? Hatch hesitated, just for a moment, and a moment was far too long. Asodo Hatch and Lupus Lon Oliver had already established themselves as the best of the best at the Combat College, which was designed to produce Startroopers for the Stormforce of the Nexus. In just under a year, they would face the terminal examinations that would decide which one of them attained the lucrative position of instructor. There was only one instructor's position. And to win it, one would have to defeat the other in combat within the illusion tanks...