Seven Mercies

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth May is the author of the YA fantasy trilogy The Falconer and short fiction published in the anthology Toil & Trouble . She was born and raised in California before moving to Scotland, where she earned her PhD at the University of St Andrews. L.R. Lam was first Californian and now Scottish. Lam is the Sunday Times bestselling and award-winning author of Dragonfall (the Dragon Scales trilogy), the Seven Devils duology (co-written with Elizabeth May), Goldilocks , the Pacifica novels, and the award-winning Micah Grey trilogy, which begins with Pantomime . They are also Programme Leader on the Creative Writing MA at Edinburgh Napier University. Klappentext The second book in a feminist space opera duology that follows the team of seven rebels who will free the galaxy from the ruthless Tholosian Empire--or die trying. After an ambush leaves the Novantae resistance in tatters, the survivors scatter across the galaxy. Wanted by two great empires, the bounty on any rebel's head is enough to make a captor filthy rich. And the seven devils? Biggest score of them all. To avoid attacks, the crew of Zelus scavenge for supplies on long-abandoned Tholosian outposts. Not long after the remnants of the rebellion settle briefly on Fortuna, Ariadne gets a message with unimaginable consequences: the Oracle has gone rogue. In a planned coup against the Empire's new ruler, the AI has developed a way of mass programming citizens into mindless drones. The Oracle's demand is simple: the AI wants One's daughter back at any cost. Time for an Impossible to Infiltrate mission: high chance of death, low chance of success. The devils will have to use their unique skills, no matter the sacrifice, and pair up with old enemies. Their plan? Get to the heart of the Empire. Destroy the Oracle. Burn it all to the ground. Leseprobe 1.   Eris   Present day   It was harder to steal supplies when the whole fucking galaxy wanted Eris and her crew dead.   And she was really, really trying not to murder anyone.   The directive from Kyla came through Eris's Pathos, the minuscule device at the base of her skull that allowed her crew to communicate telepathically.   Their commander was with their primary ship, Zelus, still orbiting Victrix's atmosphere. It was easier to do supply runs in their smaller bullet craft without setting off the Empire's detection systems. Eris's absolute shitstain of a brother would be all too happy to know where they were. Every time she heard him referred to as Archon Damocles on the newscasts, she tasted bile on her new, bionic tongue.   The old military outstation was supposed to be in a deserted forest. When the ship's systems had pinged the coordinates, it said the reduced population of the mostly uninhabitable planet had kept the need for military presence small. It was too mountainous, the soil rugged, and rain fell less every year. Their outposts had been relegated to coastal areas as the forests began to dry out and lose resources; Victrix seemed the safest option for a quick supply run to one of the abandoned storehouses.   The ship's computers had lied.   Maybe not lied-but the systems hadn't been updated since before the Laguna Massacre. On the eve of a truce meant to end a war, Tholosians and Evolians alike had been slaughtered as a virus engineered by the Tholosian Empire swept through the ceremony. An act of war, if there ever was one. It had been a slaughter-a mass casualty event that killed thousands of revelers there to celebrate a new age of peace.   But, of course, no one blamed the Empire. Damocles' reputation had escaped as unblemished as the new, glittering crown he'd fashioned from his father's old one. The Oracle had done One's job-woven One's programming through c...

Product details

• Authors: L R Lam, L. R. Lam, Laura Lam, Elizabeth May
• Publisher: Daw
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2023
• EAN: 9780756418168
• ISBN: 978-0-7564-1816-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 209 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Seven Devils
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy