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The Orphaned Worlds

Contributors

By Michael Cobley

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Oct 30, 2012
Page Count
656 pages
Publisher
Orbit
ISBN-13
9780316214018

Price

$9.00

Price

$12.00 CAD

Format

Trade Paperback

Format:

Trade Paperback $9.00 $12.00 CAD

The fight is on. So let the battle begin.

Darien is no longer a lost outpost of humanity, but the prize in an intergalactic struggle. Hegemony forces control the planet, while Earth merely observes, rendered impotent by galactic politics. Yet Earth’s ambassador to Darien will become a player in a greater conflict as there is more at stake than a turf war on a newly discovered world.

An ancient temple hides access to a hyperspace prison, housing the greatest threat sentient life has never known. Millennia ago, malignant intelligences were caged there following an apocalyptic struggle, and their servants work on their release. Now a new war is coming.

Series:

  • Praise for the Humanity's Fire trilogy:

    "Proper galaxy-spanning Space Opera ... a worthy addition to the genre"
    Iain M. Banks
  • "The invention is endless"
    SFX

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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