Double Scots
I know, it's a terrible title. And it took me ages to come up with it. But since it's reasonably descriptive of the contents of this post, I'm sticking with it.
The two Scots in question are Michael Cobley and Gary Gibson, both of whom have had New Space Opera novels published this year. Cobley's The Orphaned Worlds is the second in his Humanity's Fire trilogy, and Gibson's Empire of Light is the final book in his Shoal Sequence.
Last year, I said of Seeds of Earth, the first book of Michael Cobley's Humanity's Fire trilogy (see here), that it was "a pure hit of the purest space opera". The Orphaned Worlds is no different.
The Sendrukan and Broltruan forces occupying the lost human colony of Darien have tightened their grip, and the freedom fighters have moved into the various historical Uvovo strongholds. Meanwhile, Earthsphere ambassador Robert Horst is hunting through the many levels of hyperspace to find the Godhead, a powerful machine intelligence. Theo Karlsson has been captured by Ezgara mercenaries - who are from another lost human colony - but these are good Ezgara mercenaries, and they discover something shocking in their history. Julia Bryce and the other Enhanced have been captured by a mercenary working for the Spiral Prophecy, who have sent a vast invasion force to Darien. The Knight of the Legion of Avatars has reached Darien, and sets about taking over the warpwell so he can free the millions of Avatars imprisoned in the hyperspace Abyss. And Kao Chih learns what happened to his home world - the third lost human colony - after his grandparents left...
(Rest of post on It Doesn't Have To Be Right...)
The two Scots in question are Michael Cobley and Gary Gibson, both of whom have had New Space Opera novels published this year. Cobley's The Orphaned Worlds is the second in his Humanity's Fire trilogy, and Gibson's Empire of Light is the final book in his Shoal Sequence.
Last year, I said of Seeds of Earth, the first book of Michael Cobley's Humanity's Fire trilogy (see here), that it was "a pure hit of the purest space opera". The Orphaned Worlds is no different.
The Sendrukan and Broltruan forces occupying the lost human colony of Darien have tightened their grip, and the freedom fighters have moved into the various historical Uvovo strongholds. Meanwhile, Earthsphere ambassador Robert Horst is hunting through the many levels of hyperspace to find the Godhead, a powerful machine intelligence. Theo Karlsson has been captured by Ezgara mercenaries - who are from another lost human colony - but these are good Ezgara mercenaries, and they discover something shocking in their history. Julia Bryce and the other Enhanced have been captured by a mercenary working for the Spiral Prophecy, who have sent a vast invasion force to Darien. The Knight of the Legion of Avatars has reached Darien, and sets about taking over the warpwell so he can free the millions of Avatars imprisoned in the hyperspace Abyss. And Kao Chih learns what happened to his home world - the third lost human colony - after his grandparents left...
(Rest of post on It Doesn't Have To Be Right...)