Shadowline
Kindle Edition
Night Shade Books · Ebook · January 1, 2010
The vendetta in space had started centuries before "Mouse" Storm was born with his grandfather's raid on the planet Prefactlas, the blood bath that freed the human slaves from their Sangaree masters.
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- Who it’s for
- A planetary war pits generations of vengeance against private armies on a divided world.
- Themes
- Intergenerational vengeance, Slavery and liberation, Military conflict
- Pacing
- Mixed
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The vendetta in space had started centuries before "Mouse" Storm was born with his grandfather's raid on the planet Prefactlas, the blood bath that freed the human slaves from their Sangaree masters. But one Sangaree survived—the young Norborn heir, the man who swore vengeance on the Storm family and their soldiers, in a carefully mapped plot that would take generations to fulfill.
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Now Mouse's father Gneaus must fight for an El Dorado of wealth on the burning half of the planet Blackworld. As the great private armies of all space clash on the narrow Shadowline that divides inferno from life-sheltering shade, Gneaus' half-brother Michael plays his traitorous games, and a man called Death pulls the deadly strings that threaten to entrap them all—as the Starfishers Trilogy begins.
War in Shadow
A planetary war pits generations of vengeance against private armies on a divided world.
Come here for
- Generational vendettas on an interstellar scale
- Private armies battling across a world split by fire and shade
Expect
- Treacherous family politics amid mercenary warfare
- A hard-edged opening to a trilogy
Where it sits
| Military Sci-Fi | 92% |
|---|---|
| Space Opera | 72% |
| Sci-Fi Adventure | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Short Story Anthologies
- Fantasy
- Space Opera
- Authors
- Glen Cook
- Publisher
- Night Shade Books
- Published
- January 1, 2010
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Intergenerational vengeance · Slavery and liberation · Military conflict
- Reading lane
- Short Story Anthologies