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ORIGINAL TRADE PAPERACK. Steve White, co-author with David Weber of the New York Times best-seller The Shiva Option, joins with Compton Crook Award Winner Charles E. Gannon to carve another notch in the Starfire adventure saga. The war with the Arduansmdash;profoundly alien invaders who originally arrived in STL shipsmdash;is over. Most of those attackers are now probationary (and very productive) citizens of the Rim Federation. However, many among the Arduansrsquo; warrior caste have neither accepted defeat, nor the personhood of any of the other intelligence races. Their leader, the ruthless admiral of the second Arduan exodusmdash; Amunsitmdash;is in firm control of the Zarzuela system. Along with a fifth column among the peaceable Arduans, she hopes to find allies in subsequent refugee fleets that abandoned their race now-dead home system long ago. But as the victorsrsquo; diplomats attempt to soothe tensions with these warlike neighbors, two heroes of the last warmdash;veteran Admiral Ian Trevayne and young trouble-shooter Ossian Wethermere–suspect they have stumbled upon a deeper Arduan plot: one which could shatter the Pan-Sentient Union, and perhaps interstellar civilization itself. About Extremis: Vivid. . .Battle sequences mingle with thought-provoking exegesis . . . ndash;Publishers Weekly About Steve White and David Weber The Shiva Option: [Leaves] the reader both exhilarated and enriched. ndash;Publishers Weekly About Steve White: White offers fast action and historically informed world-building. ndash;Publishers Weekly About Steve White Forge of the Titans: . . . recalls the best of the John Campbell era of SF. White core audience of hard SF fans will be pleased . . . ndash;Publishers Weekl

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