Torrance Black, the lone human on Esgarat, has a plan to save the dying planet, but can he get to Esgarat City fast enough to see it through?
Baraq Waganat returns to Esgarat City, out for blood and hellbent on taking down the most powerful Families.
Tierra Waganat’s seething hatred of his brother Baraq drives his need to restore their Family to the upper strata.
The Families jostle for control. The Orange Army remnants fall back. The quadarti struggle to maintain the lives they’ve always known.
Their stories tangle together to ask the only questions that matter:
How will they survive? And what will be left if they do?
STARDUST, the eighth 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 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.
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