Starfishers
Kindle Edition
Night Shade Books · Ebook · April 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
- Generational grudges meet military scale on a world split between inferno and shadow.
- Themes
- Generational revenge, Human slavery and liberation, Interstellar conflict
- Genres
- Space Opera, Military Sci-Fi, Sci-Fi Adventure
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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.
Grudges at Scale
Generational grudges meet military scale on a world split between inferno and shadow.
Come here for
- Space opera where family vendettas reach across generations
- Private armies clashing on a vividly hostile world
Expect
- A broad military-SF canvas with old grudges and competing loyalties
- Conflict shaped by a planet’s narrow divide between inferno and shade
Where it sits
| Space Opera | 94% |
|---|---|
| Military Sci-Fi | 76% |
| Sci-Fi Adventure | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Short Story Anthologies
- Fantasy
- Space Opera
- Authors
- Glen Cook
- Publisher
- Night Shade Books
- Published
- April 1, 2010
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Generational revenge · Human slavery and liberation · Interstellar conflict
- Reading lane
- Short Story Anthologies