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This Gulf of Time and Stars

By Julie E. Czerneda
This Gulf of Time and Stars by Julie E. Czerneda digital book - Fable

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Space opera meets hard science fiction in this trilogy featuring “fully-fledged alien races, intriguing plotlines, beautifully drawn worlds, and . . . believable inter-species romance” (Ursula Pflug, The Alphabet Stones).

To save their world, the most powerful of the Om’ray left their homes. They left behind all memory of their past. Calling themselves the Clan, they settled among Humanity, hiding in plain sight, using their ability to slip past normal space to travel where they wished, using their ability to control minds to ensure their place and security.

They are no longer hidden.

For the Clan face a crisis. Their reproduction is tied to individual power, and their latest generation of females, Choosers, are too strong to safely mate. Their attempt to force others to help failed until Sira di Sarc, their leader and the most powerful of their kind, successfully Joined with a human, Jason Morgan, starship captain and telepath. With Morgan, Sira forged the first peace between her kind and the Trade Pact.

But it is a peace about to shatter. Those the Clan have controlled all these years will rise against them. Her people dying around her, war about to consume the Trade Pact, Sira will be left with only one choice. She must find the way back. And take the Clan home.

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“4.5 stars, https://reviews.metaphorosis.com/review/this-gulf-of-time-and-stars-julie-e-czerneda/ <strong>Summary </strong>With the Clan finally and formally part of the Trade Pact, life is getting back to normal. But now a complex plot is targeting Clan members, and the survivors must find safety - perhaps by going back to their mysterious origins. <strong>Review </strong> While https://reviews.metaphorosis.com/review/a-thousand-words-for-stranger-julie-e-czerneda/ is likely the book that introduced me (and many others) to Julie Czerneda, and I liked that initial trilogy, it was actually the prequel trilogy that I enjoyed more. Here, in this final trilogy, she brings the two worlds of the Trade Pact and the isolated planet Cersi together. And does so in what I found a really satisfying way. Lots of mysteries resolved here, and yet it’s just book one of the new set! I put off reading this for a long time, because I only had a NetGalley PDF in my library, and I hate reading PDFs, let alone fixing up conversions. But I started on a reread of the whole series earlier this year, and then reading Czerneda’s <em>A Turn of Light </em>fantasy brought me around to finally digging into these last book. Ironically, after some pain reading and time spent fixing a conversion of this book, I literally just now found that I did, in fact, buy an ebook copy – 6 years ago! – and could have spared myself a lot of time and effort by just downloading it (which is why I do buy e-books rather than convert PDFs). In any case, I really enjoyed this. I don’t know that it’s the best of the series so far – Sira and Morgan continue to be a little too sickly sweet to each other – but it is the most satisfying. There are riddles yet to resolve (e.g., the Watchers), but I’ve seldom seen a book tie up quite so many loose ends so smoothly. I have some quibbles – some of the info comes out a little too easily, and the end feels rushed, but if you’ve enjoyed the series so far, you’ll like this quite a bit.”
“I started to just JUMP into this one, but realized I had to go back and read 1-3.... then about 2/3 of the way through I realized I'd have to re-read the prequel trilogy, too...”

About Julie E. Czerneda

For twenty years, Canadian author/ former biologist Julie E. Czerneda has shared her curiosity about living things through her science fiction, published by DAW Books, NY. With seventeen (and counting) novels and numerous short stories in print, she’s also written acclaimed fantasy. Her Night’s Edge series (DAW) began with A Turn of Light, winner of the 2014 Aurora Award for Best English Novel. A Play of Shadow followed, winning the 2015 Aurora. Julie’s edited/co-edited sixteen anthologies of SF/F, including the Aurora-winning Space Inc. and Under Cover of Darkness. Her most recent anthology is the 2017 Nebula Award Showcase, to be published May 2017. 2017 will also see the completion of Julie’s Clan Chronicles, with the conclusion, To Guard Against the Dark, in stores October 2017. Please visit www.czerneda.com.

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