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by Allen Steele (Author)
"The terrific conclusion to one of the best science fiction trilogies of the last decade." --Baryon
Earth is dying. Corporate and political greed have devastated the environment and depleted natural resources. To ensure humanity's survival, people must take to the stars and find new worlds to inhabit.
More than two hundred years ago, dissidents from Earth escaped from an authoritarian regime by hijacking a starship and colonizing the planet Coyote. It is the last, best hope for the human race. Utilizing newly developed wormhole technology, Earth's governments plan to start transporting people between worlds near instantaneously. They're ready and willing to settle Coyote, socially, culturally, and politically.
One of Coyote's original colonists, Carlos Montero, fought a revolution to prevent his home falling prey to the forces responsible for ruining Earth. To protect his people--and a civilization native to Coyote--from Earth's impending resettlement he knows he must make diplomatic alliances even as his enemies plot to overthrow the Coyote Federation . . .
"The best space colonization saga to come along in decades." --Rocky Mountain News
"Familiar scenarios are handled with skill and a sense that the consequences matter and that ordinary humanity and a human-scale environment can still generate a story worth telling." --Locus
Author Biography
Before becoming a science fiction writer, Allen Steele was a journalist for newspapers and magazines in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Missouri, and his home state of Tennessee. But science fiction was his first love, so he eventually ditched journalism and began producing that which had made him decide to become a writer in the first place.
Since then, Steele has published eighteen novels and nearly one hundred short stories. His work has received numerous accolades, including three Hugo Awards, and has been translated worldwide, mainly into languages he can't read. He serves on the board of advisors for the Space Frontier Foundation and is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He also belongs to Sigma, a group of science fiction writers who frequently serve as unpaid consultants on matters regarding technology and security. Allen Steele is a lifelong space buff, and this interest has not only influenced his writing, it has taken him to some interesting places. He has witnessed numerous space shuttle launches from Kennedy Space Center and has flown NASA's shuttle cockpit simulator at the Johnson Space Center. In 2001, he testified before the US House of Representatives in hearings regarding the future of space exploration. He would like very much to go into orbit, and hopes that one day he'll be able to afford to do so. Steele lives in western Massachusetts with his wife, Linda, and a continual procession of adopted dogs. He collects vintage science fiction books and magazines, spacecraft model kits, and dreams.
