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A future where ships can fold space and much of humanity has abandoned its depleted world. Two forces-- Government and Corporation-- vie for control of what's left of the Earth, of known space, and of the universe beyond.
About the author
LOUISE SIMONSON has written comics for superhero, science fiction, horror, and fantasy audiences. For Marvel, she created and wrote the award-winning Power Pack; X-Factor; The New Mutants; Web of Spider-Man; and Wolverine: Meltdown, with her husband, Walter Simonson. Her DC Comics work includes Superman: Man of Steel, featuring the Death and Return of Superman; and Steel. She has set stories in the Star Wars, World of Warcraft, and even the Cartoon Network universes. Her co-creations--Apocalypse, Cable, Steel, and Doomsday --are featured in film and television. She has written 45 books, many featuring comics characters. She lives in the suburbs of New York City.
Summary
Time: A future where ships can fold space and much of humanity has abandoned its depleted world. Two forces-- Government and Corporation— vie for control of what’s left of the Earth, of known space, and of the universe beyond.
Hyperbreed tm: Gene-spliced human-animal hybrid assets with no legal status, living, breathing slaves created and programmed to do their Corporate masters bidding. Government, in trying to limit Corporate power, has recently insisted “splices” be paid wages and has begun to debate a bill that would allow the Hyperbreed assets to buy their freedom. Corporate will do anything to stop it.
Maks: A race of alien robot pirates that exists on the edge of explored space--terrifying monsters who wear the body parts of vanquished flesh-and-blood enemies as trophies. An attack on Earth is next on their agenda.
Caught in the middle: Byrr, Fext and Cammo, three Hyperbreed assets who’ve run afoul of their Corporate masters. Thrown together on an ancient freighter, their mission is to transport valuable Explosive Ore to a distant mining colony. But their mission is far from what it seems and the battle for their futures and the future of Known Space is about to begin.
In the vastness of space, small betrayals can have major consequences, playing the odds can change the course of history, and Luck isn’t always what it seems.
