A race against time.
A question of who lives and who dies.
Across distant star systems, forces clash to save the worlds they love.
Torrance Black, stranded on a dying planet, gambles on one last hope.
Baraq Waganat, the quadar who triggered civil war, yearns to fulfil a legacy.
Allie Feder, brilliant physicist, chases the universe’s most powerful weapon.
Deidra Francis, leader of Universe Three, faces a brutal dilemma.
Zina Nichols, ambitious United Government Intelligence Officer, runs a high-stakes op.
Thomas Kitchell and Marisa Harthing, long-ago heroes of the Everguard disaster, learn to play a game they never knew existed.
Who will live? Who will die? And what will be left behind?
STARBORN, the ninth book of Stealing the Sun, a space-based Science Fiction series from frequent Analog contributor and bestselling Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy author Ron Collins
Ron Collins is a best-selling Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy author who writes across the spectrum of speculative fiction.
His SF series Stealing the Sun has topped Amazon’s Hard Science Fiction charts. His fantasy series Saga of the God-Touched Mage reached #1 on Amazon's bestselling dark fantasy list in the UK and #2 in the US. His short fiction has received a Writers of the Future prize and a CompuServe HOMer Award, and his short story "The White Game" was nominated for the Short Mystery Fiction Society's 2016 Derringer Award.
He has contributed a hundred or so short stories to Analog, Asimov's, Fiction River Anthology Series, and several other professional magazines and anthologies.
He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and has worked to develop avionics systems, electronics, and information technology before chucking it all to write full-time.
Ron's website is: www.typosphere.com.
Follow Ron on Twitter: @roncollins13