By Charles E. Gannon
Sequel to nationwide bestseller, Nebula Award finalist, and Compton criminal Award winner Fire with Fire. technological know-how fiction experience on a grand scale.
When reluctant interstellar diplomat and intelligence operative Caine Riordan returns from humanity’s first come across with alien races, unexpected battle clouds burst. With Earth’s fleet shattered by way of a sneak assault and its survivors scuffling with for his or her lives, Caine needs to depend on either his first touch and weaponry talents to take care of the non-humanoid enemy. And whilst the technologically-superior attackers sweep apart the sunlight system’s final defenses, and traitorous agencies invite the invaders to land "security forces," humanity fights again with its top guns: crafty, inventiveness, and guts.
yet as Earth hurtles in the direction of a last trial by means of hearth that's bound to scar its collective reminiscence, Caine discovers that there can also be huge and anxious gaps in that reminiscence. Clues aspect to a far prior inter-species apocalypse, buried in humanity’s personal prehistory. Which increases a terrifying risk: what if the extraterrestrial beings' invasion of Earth isn't really one in every of conquest, yet preemption? And what if their harrowing stories of a long-past cataclysmic struggle makes them prepared to do something to maintain it from reigniting?
no matter if that implies exterminating the human race.
approximately Trial through Fire:
"Gannon's whiz-bang moment stories of the Terran Republic interstellar experience can provide at the promise of the 1st (Fire with Fire). . . . The appeal of Caines harrowing event lies in Gannons cognizance to element, which retains the layers of political intrigue and army motion from getting too dense. the handfuls of key characters, a number of theaters of operations, and diverse alien cultures all obtain the correct volume of cognizance. The fulfilling solution is better by means of the promise of extra pleasure to come back during this attention-grabbing far-future universe."—Publishers Weekly Starred Review
" . . . deals the kind of not easy science-fiction these accustomed to the toilet Campbell period of Analog technology Fiction will remember.Gannon throws his readers into an action-packed experience. A sequel to fireplace With fireplace, it's a nonstop story packed with army science-fiction action." —Daily information of Galveston County
"[A] white-knuckle experience . . . with genuine stakes, and units up the subsequent problem for the newly named Terran Republic. Gannon is making it effortless for me to satisfy my objective of interpreting extra army SF this year."—Fantasy Literature Review
approximately Compton criminal award winner for top first novel, Fire with Fire:
“Chuck Gannon is a kind of outstanding finds—someone as ok with characters as he's with expertise, and both adept at offering these characters with difficulties to resolve. imaginitive, enjoyable, and never afraid to step at the occasional toe or gore the occasional sacred cow, his tales don't disappoint.”—David Weber
"If we meet robust extraterrestrial beings available in the market, do we undergo the destiny of the Aztecs and Incas, or locate the agility to outlive? Gannon fizzes with principles in regards to the harmful politics of first contact.”—David Brin
"The plot is fascinating after which a few. Well-developed and self-consistent; clever readers are going to love it."—Jerry Pournelle
"[T]he intersecting plot threads, motion and well-conceived technological know-how saved these pages turning."—SF Crowsnest
approximately Starfire sequence hit, Extremis, coauthored by means of Charles E. Gannon:
“Vivid. . . conflict sequences mingle with thought-provoking exegesis . . .”–Publishers Weekly
"It’s a grand, enjoyable sequence of battles and campaigns, useful of whatever Dale Brown or Larry Bond ever wrote." –Analog
approximately Charles E. Gannon:
"[A] robust [writer of] . . . army SF. . .[much] motion happening in his paintings, with loads of physics in the back of it. there's a genuine feel of the urgency of warfare and the sacrifices it demands." –Locus
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