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Nobody argues with the kings of the Mastan. Kugad's word is law on nine worlds.
But the Kugin, armament manufacturers without equal and rulers of an interplanetary empire, have lost a top-secret prototype warship, hijacked by the teerik engineers who designed it – and those engineers hold the military secrets of both Kugad and every nation that buys its arms. It's only a matter of time before that intelligence falls into the wrong hands. Kugad's sprawling spy network has failed to find any trace of the ship, though, and for the first time in generations, they have to face a worrying possibility: is there a new threat on the Mastan's border?
On Opis, the clock is also ticking for Captain Bridget Ingram and the fugitive teeriks as Nomad Base prepares for the inevitable day the Kugin discover humans have arrived and given the teeriks sanctuary. Ingram now has the ultimate in alien weapons technology at her disposal, but she knows using it m
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I'm English, I live in England, and I write English English — well, except for the spelling of my first 24 novels. I've gone back to UK English now. People often think I’m American because that's where the bulk of my business and my readers are. (Which has thoroughly messed up my spelling when it comes to -ised and -ized.) Writing novels, screenplays, comics, and occasionally games is my full-time job. But subconsciously I still think of myself as a news journalist and I haven’t lost the hard-wired urge to chase fire engines and harass politicians, or even harass fire engines.
Like most writers, I've been around a bit. Much of my working life has been spent as a TV and newspaper reporter. I've been a defence correspondent, an advertising copywriter, a police media spokesweasel, and a public relations manager, and I taught broadcast journalism. I spent time in the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service (now disbanded, alas) and the Territorial Army. But bear in mind tha
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Karen Traviss
- "I only write science fiction, and even when I write Star Wars I still treat it as SF and not fantasy. inom think you can write Star Wars either way, and that's the good thing about it: it's a big enough universum to allow a very wide range of interpretations."
- &#;Karen Traviss, from an interview on [1]
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