Horizon Storms - Kevin J. Anderson [0]
The Saga of Seven Suns - Book 03
Kevin J. Anderson
BOOKS BY KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Available from Warner Aspect
The Saga of Seven Suns
Hidden Empire
A Forest of Stars
Horizon Storms
Book 4 coming in July 2005
To DEAN KOONTZ,
who has offered his advice, ideas, and encouragement since the very beginning of my career. A long time ago, he told me to “think big” with my stories; now, with The Saga of Seven Suns already longer than Tolstoy’s War and Peace, I hope this is what he meant!
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
As this series gets longer and more complex, I have had to rely on the assistance of more and more people. Jaime Levine and Devi Pillai at Warner Aspect have helped to shape this series with their editorial suggestions, both large-scale and subtle; John Jarrold, Darren Nash, and Melissa Weatherill have done the same for the UK editions of these books.
Geoffrey Girard jumped into the series with both feet and sharp eyes (to use an anatomically impossible mixed metaphor) to help me minimize contradictions in the details across the volumes.
Catherine Sidor and Diane Jones at WordFire, Inc., offered many opinions and ideas in our brainstorming sessions; Catherine nearly wore the tips off of her fingers by typing the chapters as fast as I could hand her my microcassettes.
Many of the places and events were inspired by the Seven Suns artwork of Rob Teranishi and Igor Kordey, who created the visual universe forVeiled Alliances, the Seven Suns graphic novel. I am also indebted to the vision of my fabulous cover artists, Stephen Youll and Chris Moore.
My agents John Silbersack, Robert Gottlieb, and Kim Whalen at Trident Media Group have helped greatly to make this series a success both in the U.S. and in many languages around the world.
And, most of all, my wife, Rebecca Moesta, spent a great deal of time and mental energy to work with me onHorizon Storms from the outline, through drafts, all the way to the final manuscript. Her insight, as well as her patience and her love, have made this the best book possible.
Copyright © 2004 by WordFire, Inc.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
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ISBN: 0-7595-1180-2
First eBook Edition: July 2004
Contents
THE STORY SO FAR
1 CELLI
2 MAGE-IMPERATOR JORA’H
3 BASIL WENCESLAS
4 TASIA TAMBLYN
5 DD
6 JESS TAMBLYN
7 CESCA PERONI
8 DAVLIN LOTZE
9 MAGE-IMPERATOR JORA’H
10 SULLIVAN GOLD
11 TASIA TAMBLYN
12 PATRICK FITZPATRICK III
13 CESCA PERONI
14 DD
15 TASIA TAMBLYN
16 ANTON COLICOS
17 MAGE-IMPERATOR JORA’H
18 YARROD
19 BASIL WENCESLAS
20 KING PETER
21 ORLI COVITZ
22 RLINDA KETT
23 DAVLIN LOTZE
24 ANTON COLICOS
25 MAGE-IMPERATOR JORA’H
26 JESS TAMBLYN
27 CESCA PERONI
28 ORLI COVITZ
29 MAGE-IMPERATOR JORA’H
30 DOBRO DESIGNATE UDRU’H
31 BASIL WENCESLAS
32 YARROD
33 JESS TAMBLYN
34 MAGE-IMPERATOR JORA’H
35 OX
36 CHIEF SCIENTIST HOWARD PALAWU
37 ORLI COVITZ
38 ANTON COLICOS
39 DD
40 BASIL WENCESLAS
41 TASIA TAMBLYN
42 CESCA PERONI
43 SULLIVAN GOLD
44 ADAR ZAN’NH
45 MAGE-IMPERATOR JORA’H
46 DOBRO DESIGNATE UDRU’H
47 CELLI
48 RLINDA KETT
49 PRIME DESIGNATE THOR’H
50 BASIL WENCESLAS
51 PATRICK FITZPATRICK III
52 ORLI COVITZ
53 CHIEF SCIENTIST HOWARD PALAWU
54 ANTON COLICOS
55 DAVLIN LOTZE
56 MAGE-IMPERATOR JORA’H
57 SULLIVAN GOLD
58 TASIA TAMBLYN
59 KING PETER
60 JESS TAMBLYN
61 CESCA PERONI
62 CELLI
63 KING PETER
64 SAREIN
65 MAGE-IMPERATOR JORA’H
66 NIRA
67 CESCA PERONI
68 ENGINEERING SPECIALIST SWENDSEN
69 TASIA TAMBLYN
70 ZHETT KELLUM
71 NIKKO CHAN TYLAR
72 DAVLIN LOTZE
73 RLINDA KETT
74 ORLI COVITZ
75 DD
76 DESIGNATE-IN-WAITING PERY