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Splintered Suns, Humanity's Fire

The “proper galaxy-spanning space opera” series continues with a treasure hunt that could unlock an advanced civilization's lost technologies (Ian M. Banks).

For Pyke and his crew of thieves, the plan was simple enough: Travel to a backwater desert planet, break into a museum, steal a tracking device, then use it to find a ship buried in the planet's vast and trackless sandy wastes.

Except that the museum vault is a bio-engineered chamber, and the tracking device is sought-after by another gang of treasure hunters led by an old adversary of Pyke's, the devious Raven Kaligara. Also, the ship is a quarter of a million years old, about two kilometers long, and somewhere onboard is a mysterious relic that promises to unlock all the treasures and technologies of a lost civilization…

Michael Cobley

Michael Cobley was born in Leicester, England and has lived in Glasgow, Scotland for most of his life. He has studied engineering, been a DJ and has an abiding interest in democratic politics.

His previous books include the Shadowkings dark fantasy trilogy and Iron Mosaic, a short story collection. Seeds of Earth, The Orphaned Worlds, and The Ascendant Stars, books one, two and three of the Humanity's Fire sequence, were his first full-length forays into space opera.

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