![]() ![]() ![]() One day, I might be writing more in this universe (see the faq). Here’s the site of Stephan Martiniere, who did the awesome cover artwork for the books, including both the US, UK, and Science Fiction Book Club covers. Here’s an interview with me about the book. (Well, maybe your first mass-market book is your first kiss, which would make these my first. These were also my first books in hardback, which, like your first kiss, you never forget. In late 2003, the Science Fiction Book Club came out with an omnibus edition with the original title, Succession. In the future, there’ll be a French edition as well, but I’m not sure what format. Succession has been published as two books in Russian (Eksmo/2004) and Spanish, El Imperio Elevado (La Factoría de Ideas/2005) and ElĪsesinato de los Mundos (La Factoría de Ideas/2005), and as one book in the UK and Australia (Orbit/2005 entitled, perhaps confusingly, The Risen Empire). Lucas.) So I started with that most cliched of sf protagonists, the starship captain, threw in every kind of derring-do I could imagine, and still tried to make it a pretty realistic novel. (Um, space ships don’t bank when they turn, Mr. This was my attempt to write a space opera for my 14-year-old self, who always wanted big, ass-kicking space battles and hostage rescues and armor-suited ground actions, but ones that made some kind of scientific sense. “In the tradition of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series and Frank Herbert’s Dune books. ![]()
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