Metal of Night

By Mark W. Tiedemann

2002

First Published

4.00

Average Rating

384

Number of Pages

11H43M

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Part of Series

The Secantis Sequence

Series · 2 books

By Mark W. Tiedemann

When Cira Kalinge signed on with the Armada, she thought her staid, provincial family disowning her was the worst thing that could happen. Then the Secession happened and she found herself on a carrier heading for the Distal colonies to carry out a suppression of other humans, humans who had apparently chosen to cast their fortunes with nonhumans in defiancé of the Pan Humana edicts severing all contact with the seti races. And when she ended up the sole survivor of the entire fighter contingent of her task force, grounded on Finders during the worst days of the chaos of open rebellion, living precariously for the day the Armada returned to reclaim Finders, the last thing she expected was to be betrayed by the very service for which she had given up everything else. For Alexan Cambion, volunteering for combat duty seemed the ideal way to justify his father's faith in him, fighting to preserve the Pan Humana. the first open engagement of the Secession, he learns to his dismay that every action he has taken since leaving Finders for Armada service has been exactly the opposite of what his father intended, and the welcome he expects becomes a nightmare. Sean Merrick did not start his career as a double agent, but as the Secession began he found his sympathies siding more and more with the secessionists. As the battle of Finders rages and he travels the boundary between the Distals and the Pan, he learns how impossible it is to stay aloof and uncommitted. In the end, all of them must decide between loyalty and morality, family and integrity, duty and truth.

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Author

Mark W. Tiedemann

Author · 9 books

Also credited as Mark Tiedemann and M. William Tiedemann. Mark W. Tiedemann has published ten novels—-three in the Asimov's Robot Universe series, /Mirage, Chimera /and/ Aurora/—-three in his own Secantis Sequence, /Compass Reach, Metal of Night, /and /Peace & Memory/—-as well as stand-alones /Realtime, Hour of the Wolf/ (a Terminator novel), and /Remains/, plus /Of Stars & Shadows/, one of the Yard Dog Doubledog series. As well, he has published over fifty short stories, all this between 1990 and 2005. /Compass Reach/ was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award in 2002 and /Remains /was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award in 2006. For five years he served as president of the Missouri Center for the Book (http://books.missouri.org) from which position he has recently stepped down. He is now concentrating on writing new novels, a few short stories, and stirring a little chaos in the blogosphere at DangerousIntersection.org and his own blog at MarkTiedemann.com Should anyone be interested, he is represented by Jen Udden and Stacia Decker of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. Oh, he still does a little photography and has started dabbling in art again after a long hiatus.