Peace and Memory

By Mark W. Tiedemann

2003

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4.25

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448

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13H36M

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The Secantis Sequence

Series · 3 books

By Mark W. Tiedemann

Decades after the Secession, humanity is still split. The isolationist Pan Humana and the expansionist Commonwealth Republic live on either side of their mutual boundary, the Secant. Crossing the Secant is illegal, no matter which side you start from. Trade Tamyn Glass is on a well-paying and mostly legal run when she is contacted by Benajim Cyanus—a man she doesn't know, piloting a ship that isn't his, pursued by people who intend him harm. He carries a plea from an old friend that Tamyn can't ignore. Sean Merrick, richest of the early founders of the Commonwealth, is dying, and his last wish is to be buried on Earth. That means crossing the Secant and breaking the law. But that's only the start of Tamyn's problems. Merrick is trying to live beyond his natural lifespan: he has loaded his persona into his ship, the Solo, and turned it over to Benajim—a man who has no memory of his past and owes his present to Sean Merrick. One man has placed them all in a moral, ethical, and legal dilemma that threatens everything they know, and there's no time to consider. They have to decide, and decide now. Their choice will have profound consequences. For everyone.

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Author

Mark W. Tiedemann

Author · 11 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.