Reckoning

Informationen zum Autor W. Michael Gear Klappentext Three years after Ashanti spaced for Solar System, Turalon reappears in the Donovanian sky. The Corporation has returned. Donovan's wealth is a lure for the powerful families who control the Board. Unburdened by morals, they are bringing their battle for supremacy to Port Authority and a showdown that could tear The Corporation apart. Much to her disgust, Falise Taglioni has been chosen to ensure that her family emerges triumphant; she comes with instructions for her brother, Dek. After all, she could always manipulate him to her will. And she will again, even if she has to destroy Talina Perez in the process. And if her war with the Grunnels, Xian Chans, and Radceks destroys Port Authority in the process? Who cares? But nothing on Donovan is static, and in the three years since Ashanti's departure, life on the planet has hardened Kalico Aguila and the scrappy inhabitants of Port Authority. Life in the bush breeds a different kind of human: genetically altered, tough, and self-reliant. And on Donovan, determining who is predator and who is prey has never been easy. Meanwhile, for Kylee Simonov and her bonded quetzal, Flute, there will be a final comeuppance. Because on Donovan, blood vendetta needs to be paid. And then she's going to town. After which, nothing will be the same. Leseprobe 1 All Taglionis were engineered to be perfect. Falise could see it in the image reflected from the transparency's smooth glass: a tall woman, athletic and slender, dressed in a shimmering wrap that brought to mind a rainbow-effect sari. Her hair had been perfectly coiffed, ash blond, auburn, and black streaks layered to create a striking and artistic pattern. She elevated her chin, staring thoughtfully at the perfectly proportioned face-though against the glass, her emerald-green eyes weren't shown to their best effect. She had been designed to be beautiful, right down to her long fingers with their immaculately manicured nails. She stood in Turalon's observation dome and stared out at the galaxy. For the last year and seven months, she had missed seeing stars. After Turalon inverted symmetry, the only thing to see had been a weird gray haze that seemed to suck at the eyes. Thirty seconds of staring at it brought on vertigo. Captain Margo Abibi had informed her that it had to do with how photons were absorbed by the fields that surrounded the ship while in the state of inverted symmetry that popped it "outside" of the regular universe. Physics wasn't one of Falise's interests, though through her implants, she could call up anything she needed to know. In her eyes, it was sufficient that fusion reactors generated electromagnetic and gravitational fields powerful enough to press the ship outside of regular space. And once "outside," a dauntingly sophisticated statistical program calculated the probability that Turalon would be at the right location when it cut power to the fields and "popped" back into normal four-dimensional spacetime. Sort of like a bubble of air being forced underwater, Turalon could only remain outside the universe as long as the generators kept it there. The trick, however, lay in the statistical probabilities calculated by the quantum cubit computers deep in the ship's guts. Probability. That was the key. For a year and seven months now, Turalon had been in whatever dimension of the multiverse a ship entered when symmetry was inverted. And then-according to the computers-less than an hour ago, probability suggested that if the fields were shut down-Turalon would pop back into the universe to which it belonged. It would find itself in the Capella system, thirty light years from Solar System. Probability. Not certainty. Nothing was guaranteed. While she lingered in the observation dome, the ship's crew and passengers were sweating it out in the mess hall. Waiting as the astrogation officer-or AO-...

Product details

• Authors: W Michael Gear, W. Michael Gear
• Publisher: Daw
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2023
• EAN: 9780756418694
• ISBN: 978-0-7564-1869-4
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 31 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy > Science fiction