About this ebook
A new novel set in the world of the popular science fiction online role playing game, EVE.
We all crave a purpose.
A fire to spark our lives into action.
It's this burning life within that drives us to our destinies.
But when it burns too deep, or goes unchecked, it can shatter innocent lives in its wake.
A vicious attack on a deep-space mining colony rains death and destruction on nearly all its inhabitants. Only a handful survive. Among the shattered survivors is a young man, hell-bent on an impossible revenge.
In another part of the universe, a wealthy agent of death finds her tenuous grip on sanity slipping, and is forced to leave everything she's come to know and love. But her last chance at redemption lies in the last place she ever thought to look.
Their respective paths take them through the vast universe of EVE, to galactic empires built on faith, hedonism, discipline, and rebellion. Their fates plunge them into the darkest parts of this galaxy, to encounters with denizens of the chaotic and dangerous pirate kingdoms. And all the while, as each draws closer to what they seek, they begin to realize that the only stakes worth playing for are the ones from which they've run so far away. . . .
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
We all crave a purpose.
A fire to spark our lives into action.
It's this burning life within that drives us to our destinies.
But when it burns too deep, or goes unchecked, it can shatter innocent lives in its wake.
A vicious attack on a deep-space mining colony rains death and destruction on nearly all its inhabitants. Only a handful survive. Among the shattered survivors is a young man, hell-bent on an impossible revenge.
In another part of the universe, a wealthy agent of death finds her tenuous grip on sanity slipping, and is forced to leave everything she's come to know and love. But her last chance at redemption lies in the last place she ever thought to look.
Their respective paths take them through the vast universe of EVE, to galactic empires built on faith, hedonism, discipline, and rebellion. Their fates plunge them into the darkest parts of this galaxy, to encounters with denizens of the chaotic and dangerous pirate kingdoms. And all the while, as each draws closer to what they seek, they begin to realize that the only stakes worth playing for are the ones from which they've run so far away. . . .
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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4.4
34 reviews
Brian
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June 28, 2014
It had a good story, kinda gave a background to the gameplay it's self, but it's a far cry to falling in line with the rest of the books. It viewed capsuleers as their own species, uncaring towards those that are not. If anything the other books show that capsuleers are different in each way and not all cold blooded as this book made them out to be. It would have been good to revolve around other capsuleers as well instead of just one.
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Paul Lovelace
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May 4, 2013
This book does a great job covering the life of everyday people in the factions. The only real problem is of the plot wraps up too quickly at the end. It makes it feel like the entire book was an adventure that didn't really have an end. I would have liked to have known what happened to the other main character that I had grown to love.
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David Holden
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January 19, 2013
While most people might not like this book, I found it quite enjoysble and couldn't put it down. I read it cover to cover in only a short time and enjoyed the story
About the author
Hjalti Daníelsson is CCP's lead narrative creator for the harsh universe of New Eden, the setting for CCP's flagship game, EVE Online. After years working as a Game Master, possibly the only job in the world where the clientele routinely demands the return of their spaceships, he transitioned to CCP's creative writing team. Hjalti is the author of more than eighty short stories set in the EVE Online universe, along with various other works including plays and storytelling game fiction. In his spare time, he reads as many books as he can and indulges in sports where he tends to get punched in the head.
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