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Splintered Suns

#5 Humanity's Fire

Michael Cobley

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Orbit Books
11 December 2018
'Proper galaxy-spanning space opera' Iain M. Banks on Seeds of Earth Action-orientated sci-fi with a spaceship crewed by rogues and scoundrels, perfect for fans of Star Wars, Firefly or Farscape

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 a 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 civilisation...

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Imprint:   Orbit Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 402mm,  Width: 256mm,  Spine: 166mm
Weight:   347g
ISBN:   9780356509662
ISBN 10:   0356509664
Pages:   512
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Michael Cobley was born in the city of Leicester, has lived in Perth (Australia) and Glasgow but now resides in North Ayrshire. His previous works have included the Shadowkings trilogy (a dark and grim fantasy epic), Iron Mosaic (a collection of short stories) but he is best known for his epic space opera series - Humanity's Fire. Splintered Suns is a stand alone adventure set in this universe.

Reviews for Splintered Suns (#5 Humanity's Fire)

The sort of thing that space opera readers love. We've got spaceships and a broad history, shown through the viewpoints of multi-person perspectives, linked together in a way that Heinlein would've been proud of -- SFFWORLD on SEEDS OF EARTH A very entertaining read . . . the series as a whole possesses tremendous potential -- FANTASY BOOK CRITIC on SEEDS OF EARTH Hugely enjoyable . . . an absolute cracker of a space opera -- FORBIDDEN PLANET on ANCESTRAL MACHINES Cobley excels at presenting his thoroughly lived-in future with a slew of technological marvels and an engaging cast of characters -- GUARDIAN Proper galaxy-spanning space opera -- Iain M. Banks on SEEDS OF EARTH


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