The Dying Light
Published on 1. April 2014
360 pages
978-1-4976-1150-4 (ISBN)
Description
Morgan Roche is a renegade, fleeing the agents she used to work for in the Commonwealth of Empires. Her quest to understand Adoni Cane has led her to a terrible truth. He is one of a breed of genetically enhanced warriors that once terrorized the galaxy. And there might be more of them, waking up to begin fighting anew.
AN INTERSTELLAR TRAP:
A whole solar system has disappeared, wiped from the universe in an attempt to snare just one super-soldier like Cane. In an attempt to come to grips with her enemy, Morgan Roche and The Box travel willingly into the trap, but find themselves ensnared in ever-thicker tangles of deception and intrigue. Who is The Box, and is what its agenda, really? The answer will rock Roche's world right down to the foundations.
"I'm not sure what an Evergence is, but finding out promises to provide hours of fun." --Locus
"Genre-savvy and capably written, full of adventure and Asimovian imperial vistas" --Asimov's
"Full of adventure of Asimovian imperial vistas. Delivers tons of action...Offers wide-screen baroque plotting never out-of-control. With echoes of vintage Jack Williamson and Poul Anderson, as well as Niven, Asimov, and Vinge, Williams and Dix proudly continue a vital tradition in SF." --Analog
Nominated for the Aurealis Award
AN INTERSTELLAR TRAP:
A whole solar system has disappeared, wiped from the universe in an attempt to snare just one super-soldier like Cane. In an attempt to come to grips with her enemy, Morgan Roche and The Box travel willingly into the trap, but find themselves ensnared in ever-thicker tangles of deception and intrigue. Who is The Box, and is what its agenda, really? The answer will rock Roche's world right down to the foundations.
"I'm not sure what an Evergence is, but finding out promises to provide hours of fun." --Locus
"Genre-savvy and capably written, full of adventure and Asimovian imperial vistas" --Asimov's
"Full of adventure of Asimovian imperial vistas. Delivers tons of action...Offers wide-screen baroque plotting never out-of-control. With echoes of vintage Jack Williamson and Poul Anderson, as well as Niven, Asimov, and Vinge, Williams and Dix proudly continue a vital tradition in SF." --Analog
Nominated for the Aurealis Award
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Persons
Sean Williams writes for children, young adults, and adults. He is the author of forty novels, ninety short stories, and the odd odd poem, and has also written in universes created by other people, such as those of Star Wars and
Doctor Who. His work has won awards, debuted at number one on the
New York Times bestseller list, and been translated into numerous languages. His latest novel is
Twinmaker, the first in a new series that takes his love affair with the matter transmitter to a whole new level (he just received a PhD on the subject, so don't get him started).
Shane Dix is an Australian author who became obsessed with science fiction at the age of twelve after reading Robert A. Heinlein's "By His Bootstraps." Dix has had short stories published in or on the likes of Aurealis, Eidolon.net, Twenty3: A Miscellany, and Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction. He is best known for his collaborative work on the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series with Sean Williams. His accolades include but are not limited to the Aurealis Award in 2001 and three Ditmar Awards in 2001, 2003, and 2006.
Shane Dix is an Australian author who became obsessed with science fiction at the age of twelve after reading Robert A. Heinlein's "By His Bootstraps." Dix has had short stories published in or on the likes of Aurealis, Eidolon.net, Twenty3: A Miscellany, and Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction. He is best known for his collaborative work on the Star Wars: New Jedi Order series with Sean Williams. His accolades include but are not limited to the Aurealis Award in 2001 and three Ditmar Awards in 2001, 2003, and 2006.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Diagram
- PART ONE - Palasian System
- Prologue
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- PART TWO - Galine Four
- Interlude
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- PART THREE - Mok
- Interlude
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- PART FOUR - Sebettu
- Interlude
- Chapter 7
- Interlude
- Chapter 8
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Preview: The Dark Imbalance
- Copyright
