Through Fire (Darkship)
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (997 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1481482459 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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She lives in Colorado with her husband, two teen boys and a pride of cats. About the AuthorSarah A. Hoyt is the author of a dozen novels in various genres, including Darkship Thieves, The Gentleman Takes a Chance and Draw One in the Dark for Baen, as well as her acclaimed Shakespearean fantasy series, which started with the Mythopoeic award finalist, Ill Met by Moonlight. An avid history buff and longtime reader of sci-fi, fantasy, and mysteries, Hoyt has published over three dozen short stories in esteemed magazines such as Asimov's, Analog,Amazing and Weird Tales, as well as several anthologies.
Sequel to Darkship Renegades, Darkship Thieves and A Few Good Men. Against all odds, spaceship mechanic Zen Sienna finds herself in a fairytale palace, being courted by the ruler of vast lands. Swept up in a whirlwind of fire and blood, Zen must earn her citizenship on Earth and find her place in a world on the brink of revolution.About the Darkship series: “Hoyt creates a fast-paced and entertaining tale about a revolution and its reluctant leader.”—Galveston County Daily News "First-rate space opera with a moral lesson. You won't be disappointed."—Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit “A tour de force: logical, built from assumptions with no contradictions gripping.”–Jerry Pournelle “Three Musketeers creator Alexander Dumas would give Sarah A. ORIGINAL TRADE PAPERBACK. But when revolution erupts and heads start to roll, Zen finds that the life of a storybook princess is not be all fancy balls and happy endings. Hoyt a thumbs up.”–Steve Forbes “Fanciful and charming.” –Library Journal “Exceptional, wonderful and enormously entertaining.” –Booklist
Old school SF Romance Romance, that is, in the Man In The Iron Mask / Errol Flynn sense. The book opens strong - a bioenhanced extraterrestrial is dancing with the surprisingly good natured tyrant ruler of an artificial Sea City under the watchful eye of a flotilla sent by his fellow tyrants when all (revolutionary) Hell breaks loose. As the story unfold, our heroine is drawn into the political and personal strife of this future Earth. Hoyt clearly has a complex and well-developed future history, and I'm blown away by her storytelling chops here: I read this book cold without having read the first three books that proce. A Swashbuckling Tale of Revolution and Romance A fine entry in the series, plunging us into action on the Seacity Liberté, which unlike the last book in the series I read, "A Few Good Men," is dominated by French cultural influences. The rebellion set in motion in the first scene is modeled on the French Revolution and its Terror.The book is set on Earth hundreds of years from now, after war and nanoplagues have devastated continental civilization. Genetically-engineered Good Men run the world as a feudal dictatorship from Seacities established as refuges. Simon St. Cyr, the Good Man of his Seacity Liberté, is hosting visitor Zen . Kevin Trainor said It's a revolution! It's a romance! TO THE GUILLOTINE!. The fourth installment in Sarah Hoyt's Darkship series juxtaposes a bloody reprise of the French Revolution with the ongoing war of the bioengineered Good Men against the freedom-loving Usaian cultists, and Zen Sienna, former darkship crewman, is right smack in the middle of it. I personally think the two most recent novels, which focus more on the conflict between the Good Men and the Usaians, are the best of the four, and hope that Ms. Hoyt continues in a similar vein with the rest of the series.
An avid history buff and longtime reader of sci-fi, fantasy, and mysteries, Hoyt has published over three dozen short stories in esteemed magazines such as Asimov's, Analog,Amazing and Weird Tales, as well as several anthologies. Hoyt is the author of a dozen novels in various genres, including Darkship Thieves, The Ge