Chain Reaction: A Gripping Space Opera of Rescue Lanes, Burdened Worlds, and the Crown of Glass: 8 (Starwake Saga) - Tapa blanda

Chain Reaction (Paperback)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Three worlds are breaking at once. The machine calls that acceptable. Rian Vale and his battered freighter crew return from the Fenru Record with almost no margin left-just in time for the next crisis to hit all at once. Cinder Verge is freezing and burning in the same breath.Breaker Shoal is being timed into deadly water.Saint's Lantern is losing pressure in occupied berths. These are not separate disasters. They are one collapsing decision. At the center of it is the Crown of Glass, an ancient civic-weather node deep inside the waking shelter system, quietly turning heat, pressure, tides, and rescue traffic into a single burden equation. And every power circling the crisis wants the same thing: control. The Triarchy offers aid wrapped in temporary authority.Quell offers calibration wrapped in technical necessity.Both call it survival. Rian and his allies know better. If they want to save the living without handing the future to empire, seizure, or machine logic dressed up as mercy, they have to do something harder: enter the Crown as non-owners, interrupt the collapse under witness, and spend what little their ship, their alliances, and their failing shard still have left. Because the system has already started deciding which worlds are cheap enough to lose. Chain Reaction is Book Eight of The Starwake Saga: a sharp, high-tension space opera packed with damaged ships, rescue-law politics, alien civic architecture, impossible logistics, found-family pressure, and a machine that has learned to make catastrophe sound administrative. Perfect for readers who love: - gritty space opera with real civilian stakes- damaged crews, dry banter, and impossible calls- first-contact-scale architecture and civilization-sized triage- political sci-fi where aid, custody, and control are not the same thing- sequels that turn revelation into doctrine, consequence, and war The review window is closing. Rejoin The Starwake Saga now. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798252690230

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