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The Hsgard Trilogy • Book 3

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Praisc for The Asgard Trilogy:

“Brian Stableford’s ‘Asgard trilogy* [is] space opera with all the trimmings.Without those trimmings (1*11 come to them shortly) this could be hard sf adventure in the vein of Larry Niven.The setting is certainly spcctacular enough: Asgard, an immensc, mysterious artifact, larger than most worlds and divided, onion-like, into dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of separate lcvels, each capable of housing the flora and fauna of an entire planet. Add in speeulation about the origin of galactic lifc (is Asgard a seedbed, an ark, or something darker?) and thcre’s plenty of food for thought herc.

What makes the trilogy so appealing—aside from the mad abundance of sf themes, tropes, maguflins, clichcs, hoary and morę recent—is the intelligence that keeps breaking through the łayers of pulp drama. Mikę Rousseau is that rare thing, a hero with a genuine thirst for knowledge, and unassuming manners besides . . .

It’s a pleasure to encounter a space opera with its wits about it.”

Faren Miller, Locus

Jacket design by Christopher Wait

Jacket illustration by Alan M. Clark