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ORIGINAL TRADE PAPERACK.Steve White, co-author with David Weber of theNew York Timesbest-sellerThe Shiva Option,joins with ComptonCrook Award Winner Charles E. Gannon to carve another notch in the Starfire adventure saga.
The war with the Arduansprofoundly alien invaders who originally arrived in STL shipsis over. Most of those attackers are now probationary (and very productive) citizens of the Rim Federation.
However, many among the Arduans warrior caste have neither accepted defeat, nor the personhood of any of the other intelligence races. Their leader, the ruthless admiral of the second Arduan exodus Amunsitis in firm control of the Zarzuela system. Along with a fifth column among the peaceable Arduans, she hopes to find allies in subsequent refugee fleets that abandoned their race'snow-dead home system long ago.
But as the victors diplomats attempt to soothe tensions with these warlike neighbors, two heroes of the last warveteran Admiral Ian Trevayne and young trouble-shooter Ossian Wethermere--suspect they have stumbled upon a deeper Arduan plot: one which could shatter the Pan-Sentient Union, and perhaps interstellar civilization itself.
AboutExtremis:
Vivid. . .Battle sequences mingle with thought-provoking exegesis . . .Publishers Weekly
About Steve White and David WebersThe Shiva Option:
[Leaves] the reader both exhilarated and enriched. Publishers Weekly
About Steve White:
White offers fast action and historically informed world-building.Publishers Weekly
About Steve WhitesForge of the Titans:
. . . recalls the best of the John Campbell era of SF. White's core audience of hard SF fans will be pleased . . .Publishers Weekl
