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The flsgard Trilogy • Book 3

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Brian StablaFord

Acclaimed science fiction author Brian Stableford (Year Zero, Designer Genes) returns with Asgard'$ Hcart, the finał book in his trilogy about a planet that contains thousands of worlds inside it— and the one man who will do anything to penetrate its secrets.

The conflict betwcen the Isthomi and Scarid races and the surfacc dwellers of Asgard had come to a halt—but not to an end. Forces are at work on all sides to attempt to gain the upper hand in the struggle to control Asgard, an artificial planet consisting of hundreds of difTerent indisidual habitats. For control of Asgard’s hcart could mean total power over the planet itself, and all who live in it. Otherwise, it could mean the planefs complete and total destruction.

At the middlc of this multi-sidcd struggle is Michael Rousseau, an adventurer who was the first to unlock the way to Asgard^łs lower lcvels, now caught in the subtle conflict of difTerent alien races, each with thcir own agendas, not to mcntion the ever-present Susarma Lear of the Star Forcc, who wants to (continued on back flap)