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By Michael Cobley

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On Sale
Dec 4, 2018
Page Count
528 pages
Publisher
Orbit
ISBN-13
9780316515221

Price

$25.99

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$33.99 CAD

Format

Trade Paperback

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A speed of light space adventure novel of a treasure hunt that could unlock all the wonders of a vast and advanced civilization’s lost technologies.

For Pyke and his crew it should have been just another heist. Travel to a backwater desert planet, break into a museum, steal a tracking device then use it to find a ship buried in the planet’s vast and trackless sandy wastes.

Except that the museum vault is a bio-engineered chamber, and the tracking device is sought-after by another gang of treasure hunters led by an old adversary of Pyke’s, the devious Raven Kaligara. Also, the ship is quarter of a million years old and about two kilometres long and somewhere aboard it is the Essavyr Key, a relic to unlock all the treasures and technologies of a lost civilization . . .

Genre:

  • "Splintered Suns splices new and old space opera, cyberpunk, quest fantasy, and heist caper - the maddest thing I've read since Van Vogt!"
    Ken MacLeod, author of The Corporation Wars trilogy
  • "Bold and unstoppable ... a wild ride across a funhouse cosmos."
    Paul Di Filippo, author of The Steampunk Trilogy
  • "Splintered Suns is a raucous romp and a rollicking roller-coaster of a space adventure that is brimming with miscreants, races, rogues, scoundrels and heart."
    The Tattooed Book Geek
  • "Proper galaxy-spanning Space Opera ... a worthy addition to the genre."
    Iain M. Banks on Seeds of Earth
  • "The invention is endless."
    SFX on Seeds of Earth
  • "A well-constructed space opera...a thick and satisfying 10-course meal of starchy pageantry, meaty characters, bitter losses, and sweet romance."
    Publishers Weekly on Seeds of Earth
  • "Seeds of Earth has everything: well-realised extraterrestrials, scheming artificial intelligences, set-piece space battles and bizarre technology from the dawn of the galaxy."
    The Guardian (UK) on Seeds of Earth
  • "Space opera has never been in more capable hands."
    The Guardian (UK) on The Orphaned Worlds
  • "Michael Cobley has added a fine piece of work to a grand tradition."
    SF Crow's Nest on The Ascendant Stars

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Michael Cobley

About the Author

Michael Cobley was born in Leicester, England and has lived in Glasgow, Scotland for most of his life. He has studied engineering, been a DJ and has an abiding interest in democratic politics.

His previous books include the Shadowkings dark fantasy trilogy and Iron Mosaic, a short story collection. Seeds of Earth, The Orphaned Worlds, and The Ascendant Stars, books one, two and three of the Humanity’s Fire sequence, were his first full-length forays into space opera.

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