Book description
Empath Kayla John Reed's rebel forces, the War Minstrels, had struck a
crucial blow at the heart of Yates Keller's empire, conquering the
Alliance capital, Vardalia. It should have been Kayla's moment of
triumph. But Vardalia was a shambles, and not only had Yates himself
escaped, he claimed to have her friends and shipmates in his clutches.
Kayla had no choice but to agree to the terms he'd left in a
holographic message. Meet him on their home world, the mining colony
Styx, surrender the fabled Mindstone to him, and Keller would release
her friends. Yet even as she set off for the rendezvous point, trouble
was brewing among the War Minstrels - trouble that could transform their
successful revolution into the deadliest kind of anarchy if she didn't
make it back in time. And what Kayla had no way of know foreseeing was
that Styx itself hid a peril far greater than any trap Keller had
planned for her... Karen Haber (1955 - )
Karen Haber, working name of Karen Lee Haber Silverberg, is both a
science fiction and non-fiction author and editor, as well as being an
art critic and historian. Beginning her career as a genre writer with
"Madre de Dios", published in The Magazine of Fantasy and
Science Fiction
in 1988, she became more popular with her Fire in Winter
sequence. Subsequently, Haber's work has appeared in magazines such as
Asimov's Science Fiction
and many anthologies. In total she has authored nine books including
Star Trek Voyager: Bless the Beasts
, and is co-author of Science of the X-Men
. Her non-fiction essay Meditations on Middle Earth
was nominated for the 2001 Hugo award. She has been married to fellow
SF author Robert Silverberg since 1987.
