Planet of Twilight

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Hambly  is the author of  Patriot Hearts  and  The Emancipator’s Wife,  a finalist for the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction. She is also the author of  Fever Season,  a  New York Times  Notable Book of the Year ,  and the acclaimed historical Benjamin January series, including the novels  A Free Man of Color  and  Sold Down the River . She lives in California. Klappentext New York Times bestselling author Barbara Hambly returns to the Star Wars(r) universe to tell a breathtaking tale of a mysterious world where the battle between the New Republic and the Empire takes a shocking new twist.... Nam Chorios is a barren backwater world--once a dreaded prison colony, now home to a fanatic religious cult. It is here that Princess Leia has been taken captive by a ruthless and charismatic warlord bent on destroying the New Republic. Meanwhile, Luke lands on a mysterious planet in search of his lost love, Callista, only to discover the Force is his own worst enemy. But worst of all, as Han, Chewie, and Lando leave Coruscant on a desperate rescue mission, a strange life-form, unlike any the galaxy has ever seen, awakens...a life-form so malevolent it will destroy everything--both Empire and New Republic--on its path to domination. Leseprobe The first to die was a midshipman named Koth Barak. One of his fellow crewmembers on the New Republic escort cruiser Adamantine found him slumped across the table in the deck-nine break room, where he'd repaired half an hour previously for a cup of coffeine. Twenty minutes after Barak should have been back to post, Gunnery Sergeant Gallie Wover went looking for him, exasperatedly certain that he'd clicked into the infolog banks "just to see if anybody mentions the mission." Of course, nobody was going to mention the mission.  Though accompanied by the Adamantine , Chief of State Leia Organa Solo's journey to the Meridian sector was an entirely unofficial one.  The Rights of Sentience Party would have argued--quite correctly--that Seti Ashgad, the man she was to meet at the rendezvous point just outside the Chorios systems, held no official position on his homeworld of Nam Chorios.  To arrange an official conference would be to give tacit approval of his, and the Rationalist Party's, demands. Which was, when it came down to it, the reason for the talks. When she entered the deck nine break room, Sergeant Wover's first sight was of the palely flickering blue on blue of the infolog screen  "Blast it, Koth, I told you..." Then she saw the young man stretched unmoving on the far side of the screen, head on the break table, eyes shut.  Even at a distance of three meters Wover didn't like the way he was breathing. "Koth!"  She rounded the table in two strides, sending the other chairs clattering into a corner.  She thought his eyelids moved a little when she yelled his name.  "Koth!" Wover hit the emergency call almost without conscious decision.  In the few moments before the med droids arrived she sniffed the coffeine in the gray plastene cup a few centimeters from his limp fingers.  It wasn't even cold.  A thin film of it adhered to the peach fuzz beginnings of what Koth optimistically referred to as his mustache.  The stuff in the cup smelled okay--at least as okay as fleet coffeine ever smelled--and there was no question of alcohol or drugs.  Not on a Republic escort.  Not where Koth was concerned.  He was a good kid. Wover was an engine room regular who'd done fifteen years in merchant planet-hoppers rather than stay in the regular fleet after Palpatine's goons gained power: she looked after "her" midshipmen as if they were the sons she'd lost to the Rebellion.  She would have known if there had been trouble with booze or spice or giggle-dust. Disease? It was any longtime spacer's ...

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• Autoren: Barbara Hambly
• Verlag: Del Rey
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 04.05.1998
• EAN: 9780553575170
• ISBN: 978-0-553-57517-0
• Seiten: 389
• Abmessung: 107 mm x 175 mm x 27 mm
• Serien: Star Wars; Star Wars - Legends; Star Wars - Legends
• Thema: Belletristik > Science Fiction, Fantasy