Splintered Suns
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- On Sale
- Dec 4, 2018
- Page Count
- 528 pages
- Publisher
- Orbit
- ISBN-13
- 9780316515221
For Pyke and his crew it should have been just another heist. Travel to a backwater desert planet, break into a museum, steal a tracking device then use it to find a ship buried in the planet’s vast and trackless sandy wastes.
Except that the museum vault is a bio-engineered chamber, and the tracking device is sought-after by another gang of treasure hunters led by an old adversary of Pyke’s, the devious Raven Kaligara. Also, the ship is quarter of a million years old and about two kilometres long and somewhere aboard it is the Essavyr Key, a relic to unlock all the treasures and technologies of a lost civilization . . .
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"Splintered Suns splices new and old space opera, cyberpunk, quest fantasy, and heist caper - the maddest thing I've read since Van Vogt!"Ken MacLeod, author of The Corporation Wars trilogy
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"Bold and unstoppable ... a wild ride across a funhouse cosmos."Paul Di Filippo, author of The Steampunk Trilogy
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"Splintered Suns is a raucous romp and a rollicking roller-coaster of a space adventure that is brimming with miscreants, races, rogues, scoundrels and heart."The Tattooed Book Geek
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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
