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* NOMINATED FOR THE PRIX AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL *
'Delightfully brutal portrayal of the reality of war' - AMAZING STORIES
'Astonishingly good' - WORLDS WITHOUT END
'Compelling, convincing and tightly written' - SFANDF REVIEWS
'One of the best [series] of this century' - SCIFI MIND
A WAR IN THE STARS
The war rages onward and the Union's premier fighter pilots, the Homo eridanus, start encountering deadly resistance from strange pilots on the Congregate side. Among wreckage, they find that new Congregate pilots are, in fact, Homo quantus, with strange wiring and AI connections. At the same time, the Puppets come to the Union with offers of an alliance for a dangerous price: the rescue of the geneticist Antonio Del Casal who is a captive on Venus, with over a hundred Homo quantus.
Only one person might be able to break through the Congregate defences at Venus, and he's a con man.
Derek Künsken
Derek Kunsken has built genetically engineered viruses, worked with street children and refugees in Latin America, served as a Canadian diplomat, and, most importantly, taught his son about super-heroes and science. His short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and multiple times in Asimov's Science Fiction. His stories have been adapted into audio podcasts, reprinted in various Year's Best anthologies, and translated into multiple languages. They have also been short-listed for various awards, and won the Asimov's Readers' Award in 2013.
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