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Of Fire and Night
The Saga of Seven Suns Book Five
After many years of hardship and bravery, the human race faces its greatest challenge. The sweeping war between titanic races - a conflict that has obliterated planets, extinguished entire stars, exterminated whole races - is reaching its end game. Allies become betrayers, strangers become fast friends, and enemies clash in a struggle that will rock the galaxy.
For years, the alien Klikiss robots have pretended to be humanity’s friends, but their seeming `help’ has allowed them to plant an insidious Trojan Horse throughout the Earth Defence Forces, and the sudden rebellion of Earth’s own compies leaves millions dead and the Terran Hanseatic League defenceless. In a desperate attempt to save his own race, the Ildiran Mage-Imperator Jora’h is forced into a devil’s bargain with the evil hydrogues, which will require him to ambush and destroy what remains of the human race. But the gypsy Roamer clans and the green priests of the towering worldforest - scattered stepchildren of humanity - have found innovative ways to fight, as well as strange allies of incomprehensible power.
As the climactic battle is engaged, the Ildiran Solar Navy, the Earth Defence Forces, the Roamers, green priests, Klikiss robots, and hydrogue warglobes collide in a fury that will destroy many and change the landscape of the Spiral Arm forever.
'A space opera to rival the best the field has ever seen' SF Chronicle
‘A realm of wondrous possibilities ... A fascinating series’ Brian Herbert
`Sure-footed, suspenseful and tragic ... an exhilarating experience’ Locus
`Stands head and shoulders above most others in the genre’ The Alien Online
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Scattered Suns
The Saga of Seven Suns Book Four
Newly crowned Mage-Imperator Jora’h, the leader of the vast and ancient Ildiran Empire, struggles with his new knowledge: an ancient bargain’ and long-standing treachery that may finally bring peace with the-hydrogues ... though it could mean the extermination of the human race. But Jora’h’s empire has already begun destroying itself from within, when his mad brother launches a bloody rebellion across the Ildiran planets, appointing Jora’h’s own first-born son as its leader.
In the Terran Hanseatic League, Chairman Basil Wenceslas continues his red-herring war against the Roamer clans, eager to achieve a decisive victory, even against a supposed enemy that poses no threat. Cesca Peroni, leader of the Roamers, finds herself stranded on a small icy outpost where miners have uncovered a hibernating army of alien Klikiss robots. Once released, these robots trigger another dark and ancient plot, one that could lead to a massacre across all human-inhabited planets. In a galaxy tom by war, treachery, and shifting alliances, no one can know the truth about their friends or enemies.
`Colourful stuff... bursting with incidents, concepts and a massive cast of characters, matching well-thought-out SF ideas with melodrama and inter-family strife’ SFX
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Horizon Storms
Discover the third momentous event in the epic space opera of The Saga Of The Seven Suns
The titanic war between the elemental alien hydrogues and faeros continues to sweep across the Spiral Arm, extinguishing suns and destroying planets. Chairman Wenceslas and King Peter must now unify the human race with iron-fisted policies in a final bid to stand together - or face total annihilation ...
Acclaim for The Saga Of Seven Suns
‘Sure-footed, suspenseful and tragic ... an exhilarating experience’ Locus
‘Space opera on a grand scale. Anderson has created a fully independent and richly conceived venue for his personal brand of space opera Scifi.Com
‘Anderson blends the story and the technical elements together masterfully ... this book stands head and shoulders above most others in the genre’ The Alien Online
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A Forest of Stars
The Saga of Seven Suns Book Two
It has been five years since humanity’s heady expansion among the stars came to an. abrupt and violent halt. The emergence of the Hydrogues, an immensely powerful alien race dwelling within gas-giant planets, has placed the scattered colonies of the Terran Hanseatic League in jeopardy. With space travel heavily curtailed and supplies of fuel dwindling, young King Peter and Chairman Basil Wenceslas, the harsh power behind the throne, have no choice but to impose strict rationing. The Earth Defence Forces quell uprisings among the hungry colony worlds. Other humans work to develop new methods of communication and ingenious alternatives to the stardrive fuel, amidst daredevil suicide raids against the destructive Hydrogues.
But the Hydrogues are not the only enemies of humanity. The scheming Mage Imperator, leader of the ancient Ildiran Empire, attempts to forge tangled alliances among all combatants in order to protect his failing civilization. The mysterious Klikiss robots, the only remnants of an extinct race, continue to work their sinister plans while pretending to be friends and advisors to the Hanseatic League. And archaeologists Margaret and Louis Colicos - whose discovery of an ancient alien weapon accidentally triggered the Hydrogue conflict - have vanished on the abandoned world of Rheindic Co. Rlinda Kett and Davlin Lotze, sent to investigate the- disappearance, soon realize that the Colicos’ discoveries may lead to an incredible new way to travel between worlds ... or to the awakening of enemies even more fearsome than the Hydrogues.
Something of inestimable power must have been required to destroy the Klikiss race. Will humanity be next?
‘Space opera at its most entertaining’ Starlog
‘An exploration of the fantastic universe of Kevin J. Anderson’s mind’ Brian Herbert
‘Colourful stuff ... bursting with incidents, concepts and a massive cast of characters’
SFX
‘Stands head and shoulders above others in the genre. It will become a classic, in my opinion it already is’ The Alien Online
‘Galactic fantasy at its adventurous and romantic best’ Margaret Weis
‘A science fiction fight for survival’ USA Today
‘Sure-footed, suspenseful, and tragic .. an exhilarating experience’ Locus
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Hidden Empire
The Saga of Seven Suns Book One
In the far future, humanity began to search the stars, sending out vast spaceships that would take generations to reach their goals. In the depths of space they encountered the Ildiran empire - apparently the galaxy’s only other intelligent civilisation. The Ildirans came to Earth and passed on the knowledge of their stardrive, allowing humanity to expand to the stars.
Almost two hundred years after that first contact, there are human colonies proliferating through the galaxy. As Mankind seizes the future, danger comes from the past, as two human archaeologists glean forbidden knowledge from the ruins of a dead world. Once, the insect-like Klikiss ruled the stars. Now, only their robot servants remain, guardians of a terrible technology - the Klikiss Torch, which has the power to create suns.
Humanity prepares to flex its new found muscle and activate the Torch for the first time in millennia, but there are reasons the Klikiss empire fell, and a train of events is about to be set in motion, which will change the universe...
Hidden Empire begins a dazzling space opera fit to stand with the classics of the genre. It is an epic in the truest sense of the word, combining the politics of Frank Herbert’s Dune, the scope of Peter F. Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn trilogy, and the pageantry and romance of Star Wars.
`Anderson blends the story and the technical elements together masterfully. Suspense, technology, some very good character ‘moments make this book stand head and shoulders above most others in the genre’ The Alien Online
`Colourful stuff ... bursting with incidents, concepts and a massive cast of characters, matching well-thought-out SF ideas with melodrama and inter-family strife’ SFX
`Hidden Empire is space opera at its most- entertaining’ Starlog
About The Author
Kevin J. Anderson has over 15 million books in print in 27 different languages worldwide. He is the author of the X-Files novels, Ground Zero (number 1 bestseller in The Times, and voted Best SF Novel of the Year by SFX magazine), Ruins and Antibodies, as well as the Jedi Academy trilogy of Star Wars novels – the three bestselling SF novels of 1994. He is also writing the international bestselling prequels to Frank Herbert’s monumental Dune series, with Frank’s son, Brian Herbert. He has won, or been nominated for, the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, Reader’s Choice Award from the Science Fiction Book Club, and many others.
Kevin Anderson lives in Colorado.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Of Fire and Night
(Simon & Schuster Pbk,
2006)
Pbk Aug 06
Scattered Suns
(Simon & Schuster Pbk,
2005)
Horizon Storms
(Simon & Schuster,
2004)
Pocket Books Pbk Jul 05
A Forest of Stars
(Earthlight Pbk,
2003)
Hidden Empire
(Earthlight,
2002)
Earthlight Pbk Jul 03
Blindfold
(Voyager Pbk,
1999)
Of Fire and Night
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