Ancestral Machines
A Humanity's Fire Novel
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- Jan 12, 2016
- Page Count
- 496 pages
- Publisher
- Orbit
- ISBN-13
- 9780316221184
No world is safe.
The Warcage: two hundred worlds harnessed to an articial sun in a feat of unprecedented stellar engineering. Built to travel through space as a monument to peace between alien species, now its voracious rulers have turned it into a nightmarish wasteland, capturing new planets for slaves and resources, then discarding the old.
Now, when a verdant agri-world is pulled out of its orbit, the captain of a smuggler ship must journey into the Warcage to rescue his crew.
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"Proper galaxy-spanning Space Opera ... a worthy addition to the genre."Iain M. Banks on Seeds of Earth
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"The invention is endless."SFX on Seeds of Earth
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"A well-constructed space opera...a thick and satisfying 10-course meal of starchy pageantry, meaty characters, bitter losses, and sweet romance."Publishers Weekly on Seeds of Earth
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"Seeds of Earth has everything: well-realised extraterrestrials, scheming artificial intelligences, set-piece space battles and bizarre technology from the dawn of the galaxy."The Guardian (UK) on Seeds of Earth
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"Space opera has never been in more capable hands."The Guardian (UK) on The Orphaned Worlds
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"Michael Cobley has added a fine piece of work to a grand tradition."SF Crow's Nest on The Ascendant Stars
