The cruisers called.
She answered.
Cruiser Dreams
Kerrion Empire
Book 2
By Janet Morris
Genre: Fantasy,
Science Fiction
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED
SILISTRA
QUARTET.
The cruisers called.
She answered.
Cruiser Dreams, Book II in the three-book
Kerrion Empire saga
Cruiser Dreams . . . She is heir to an empire
beyond all imagining, where interstellar cruisers have become increasingly
sentient and man's role among the stars is transformed.
In this epic of political treachery,
interstellar security, human passion, and artificial intelligence, Morris
continues the saga of the fiery girl Shebat, stolen away from a decaying and
primitive Earth to be the adoptive heir to the Kerrion Empire. Molded to serve
the designs of the Kerrion state, Shebat instead becomes the harbinger of
change sweeping the civilized stars.
Against the chaotic background of simultaneous
social and technological revolutions, Shebat finds that the man she loves is
her implacable enemy, that the man she reluctantly married is perhaps her
single ally, and that her space-faring cruiser may be her only true friend.
Praise for Dream Dancer Book I in the
three-part saga of the Kerrion Empire:
"A fascinating and lyrical story, told with
great invention..." - Peter Straub, author of Shadowland and Ghost Story
"Not since Dune have we witnessed a power
struggle of such awesome intensity!" Eric Van Lustbader, author of The
Ninja and The Bourne Legacy.
Praise for Cruiser Dreams:
"Packed with intrigue, spiced with romance
. . ." -- Publishers Weekly
"Fascinating . . . Recommended!" --
Booklist
Janet Morris is an international best-selling
author who lives with her husband on Cape Cod.
Everything you've seen or read till now took you
only to the brink . . .
Neither pure fantasy, nor straight science
fiction, nor earthbound dynastic saga, Dream Dancer is a stunning amalgam of
all three. It is a family saga with the epic appeal of Dune and the action and
excitement of Star Wars. It is a saga of love, power and treachery that will
appeal to men and women equally; full of action, compulsively readable and
quite unlike anything being published in the realms of fantasy today.
Praise for the Kerrion Empire series:
"A fascinating and lyrical story, told with
great invention..." - Peter Straub, author of Shadowland and Ghost Story
"Not since Dune have we witnessed a power
struggle of such awesome intensity!" Eric Van Lustbader, author of The
Ninja and The Bourne Legacy.
"Packed with intrigue, spiced with romance
. . ." -- Publishers Weekly
"Fascinating . . . Recommended!" –
Booklist
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Best
selling author Janet Morris began writing in 1976 and has since published more
than 30 novels, many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others. She
has contributed short fiction to the shared universe fantasy series Thieves
World, in which she created the Sacred Band of Stepsons, a mythical unit of
ancient fighters modeled on the Sacred Band of Thebes. She created,
orchestrated, and edited the Bangsian fantasy series Heroes in Hell, writing
stories for the series as well as co-writing the related novel, The Little
Helliad, with Chris Morris. She wrote the bestselling Silistra Quartet in the
1970s, including High Couch of Silistra, The Golden Sword, Wind from the Abyss,
and The Carnelian Throne. This quartet had more than four million copies in
Bantam print alone, and was translated into German, French, Italian, Russian
and other languages. In the 1980s, Baen Books released a second edition of this
landmark series. The third edition is the Author's Cut edition, newly revised
by the author for Perseid Press. Most of her fiction work has been in the
fantasy and science fiction genres, although she has also written historical
and other novels. Morris has written, contributed to, or edited several
book-length works of non-fiction, as well as papers and articles on nonlethal
weapons, developmental military technology and other defense and national
security topics.
Janet says: 'People often ask what book to
read first. I
recommend "I, the Sun" if you like ancient history; "The Sacred
Band," a novel, if you like heroic fantasy; "Lawyers in Hell" if
you like historical fantasy set in hell; "Outpassage" if you like
hard science fiction; "High Couch of Silistra" if you like far-future
dystopian or philosophical novels. I am most enthusiastic about the definitive
Perseid Press Author's Cut editions, which I revised and expanded.'
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What is something unique/quirky about you?
I breed Morgan horses. I consult with Morgan breeders to help them choose breeding combinations to achieve a desired result.
I am also a song writer; I play bass guitar with my husband Chris who sings and plays guitar. We have an album on MCA records. Look for Christopher Crosby Morris on N1M.com and his album Everybody Knows on Amazon Music.
Can you, for those who don’t know you already, tell something about yourself and how you became an author?
I wrote my first novel, High Couch of Silistra in 1975; a friend sent it to an agent who chose to represent me; I had already written the second book in the Silistra Quartet and my agent told me not to disclose that until they finalized the contract for the first one. When the publisher, Bantam Books learned of the others, they bought the succeeding three. When the fourth book was published, the series already had four million copies in print. Suddenly I was a novelist specializing in environmental, gender, historical and political subjects. In the process, Chris became my editor and ultimately a co-writer. Since then, we have co-authored many books.
Who is your hero and why?
Heraclitus of Ephesus, a pre-socratic philosopher, whose Cosmic Fragments foreshadow our knowledge of reality and how to perceive it. Among his precepts is the statement that change alone is unchanging. I’ve worked Heraclitus’ fragments in here and there throughout our books.
Which of your novels can you imagine being made into a movie?
All of them. I write cinematically, our books are vivid adventures I undertake writing them without knowing the destination. I, the Sun, The Sacred Band, and Outpassage are particularly suited to film. The Threshold Series is a feast of opportunities for today’s special effects creators.
What inspired you, to write Cruiser Dreams?
Like the rest of my generation, I was inspired by the rapid development of computer technology and the thought that it might become sentient one day. I began to imagine how it would be to put our trust in machines to take us far beyond our own human reach. Cruiser Dreams is that story.
Convince us why you feel Cruiser Dreams is a must read.
Cruiser Dreams is a continuing exploration of a far future human culture that has developed artificial intelligence to a point where space-faring ships pilot themselves through regions of space where time is fluid and human navigational skills are ill-suited. However, these smart ships need a biological clock as a check on their purely mechanistic capabilities and therefore need to partner with trusted human pilots to enter and exit these fluid regions called spongespace. Shebat, our protagonist, is a practitioner of primitive magic arts and is uniquely gifted, a quality which, when combined with her omniscient spacecraft leads an entire culture where it has never been.
Who designed your book covers?
Most of my covers, including Cruiser Dreams, are realized by Roy Mauritsen, a gifted graphic artist.
Advice to writers?
As for advice to writers, here is all I know: write the story you want to read. Start at the beginning, go to the end, and stop. Seriously. From start to finish you must inhabit the construct in a manner that makes the reader choose to continue; if I, as the writer, can’t feel what it’s like being there, my readers can’t either. So close your eyes, look at your feet where they are standing on the story’s ground; tell me what you see. Tell me what you hear. Ask at the end of each paragraph ‘what happens next?’ If you lose touch with it, wait until you’re back inside it. Tell the story that comes to you, and from you to me.
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