Heroes – and heroes again. All kinds of heroes.
Blurb:
Planet Fen, lost colony, is now cut off permanently from the rest of the civilized worlds. Unfortunately a lot of people are cut off with it: the occupying troopers and their families, innumerable bureaucrats, scientists, technicians and even a missionary or two. They are all outnumbered and culturally swamped by the native colonists, a mixture of half converted primitives and a contingent of ferocious xenophobes who want all offworlders exterminated.
In this, the third book of the Gelen series, the bishop and the commander at Havekgerem, both have their hands full. The former must rein in a group of Faring Guards, fanatical, axe-wielding Lost Rythan exiles who are determined to protect him at all costs, while the commander tries vainly to police the region with his disgruntled troops. And in the midst of this come the Dawnstrikers, native blackshirts blindly following their charismatic leader as he hatches a plan to not only kill all foreigners but also to wipe out their rival tribe. And they almost succeed —
Excerpt:
When he saw Ella Trenre’s reaction and felt the sudden strands of patterning arising in the room, Vess wanted to draw back from what he had done. But it was too late. Maybe it had always been too late, for it was as though another hand had taken his, forcing him to pull out the scrap of skin and to give it to her. It was the first time he had felt something like this and it frightened him a little.
Rising from her place on the bench, Ella stood gripping the fragment while her eyes locked with those of her husband. Brana Fadre came over to stand behind her and, after a moment, Vess left his brother to join the group.
Daen, however, remained on the bench, Spear and Ella’s child on his lap. The little girl’s eyes were round with wonder as she let fall a piece of chiven bread onto the floor.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I always wanted to be a science fiction writer. But I had some other stuff to do first. So I raised four
children and wrote articles for magazines and a few children’s books. I gardened and home-schooled
the children and even spent a few years teaching in a school. Sometime during this time, my first
science fiction novel, GELEN was published. And when the grandchildren started to arrive (I’ve got
twenty, going on twenty-one of them so far), I helped out with them and now I’m homeschooling two of
them. But I also got a lot more serious about writing those sf novels.
I write what I want to read. There are whole worlds in my head and when they come out on paper, even
I am surprised. Who knows where it all comes from? I read and read and digest everything from
linguistics to archaeology, exobiology to military history – and then it turns into stories. So far I have five
sf novels published, not counting the current one, DAWNSTRIKERS. There are more to come.
I have a vision here. Some things I take for granted. The universe makes sense. People are not
particularly good, but we try and most of us mean well. That there is a God and He is extremely patient.
That the laws of physics, of science, hold good wherever you go. I have to follow them when I write.
Stuff like that. And so the books get written and I find they are all interrelated – same milieu, same
universe as it were. So far.
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