Book description
This, the culminating book of the stunning SF trilogy that began with
Shanji and Empress of Light, takes to its conclusion the tale of three
generations of Creators. Kati, the light-wielding genetic changeling who
saved her planet and became its empress, is now threatened with
assassination. Yesui, the daughter who came to control mass as well as
light, faces revolution and learns the uses of diplomacy. And Bao and
Shaan, Yesui's twin daughters, take the lineage to its limit. Leaving
our universe behind, they spin forth a radiant new creation. Jim read
and wrote science fiction as a kid and published a fanzine while in high
school, but then came college, a degree in physics and starting a family
while working on ion and arc-jet engines at Rocketdyne. Graduate school
followed, and a thirty five year career as a professor of physics,
department head and dean at North Dakota State University and Eastern
Washington University. The writing during this time was seventy five
technical papers on his research in molecular biophysics and
superconductivity. But the fiction writing bug bit hard again when Jim
was well into his forties. His first published story was in Aboriginal
S. F. and soon after he won the 1990 grand prize in the Writers of the
Future Contest. He retired from his academic job in 1999 and now writes
full time.
