Book description
6599 A. D. The war between the Earth Federation and the Herculean
Empire had been over for more than three centuries. The planet in the
Hercules Globular Cluster was a cinder; the few descendants of the
surviving Herculeans lived on Myraa's World, half a galaxy away, in what
seemed to be a religious commune. But on an unnamed planet, deep within
the Hercules Cluster, two survivors, father and son, gather their
resources and plan a reign of terror against Federation worlds. But the
woman Myraa has a different vision - one which excludes empires and
warring armies. Subtly, she strives to shape events toward a different
end. Rising to one of the most unusual climaxes in recent fantastic
literature, this novel of chase and vengeance depicts a colorful, poetic
future which is struggling to overcome its past. Filled with striking
twists and vivid ideas, this is space opera at its most modern. George
Zebrowskis nearly forty books include novels, short fiction collections,
anthologies, and a book of essays. Science fiction writer Greg Bear
calls him one of those rare speculators who bases his dreams on science
as well as inspiration, and the late Terry Carr, one of the most
influential science fiction editors of recent years, described him as an
authority in the SF field. Zebrowski has published more than seventy
works of short fiction and more than a hundred and forty articles and
essays, and has written about science for Omni Magazine. His short
fiction and essays have appeared in Amazing Stories, The Magazine of
Fantasy & Science Fiction, Science Fiction Age, Nature, the Bertrand
Russell Society News, and many other publications.
