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Learn moreThe world Corus has been redesigned to become the new home of a superior race from a distant world whose very life depends on drawing sustenance from the biological life force of a planet. Meanwhile, their plans are supervised by a staff of Alectors, who in effect rule the world. The Alectors alone have access to the huge flying Pteridons they have bred, and the superior weapons that underpin their psychic talents.
The time is now fast approaching for the transfer of the whole population from the old world nearly bled dry of life force to Corus. But neither the Alectors (who will be reduced in status when the real powers arrive) nor the local humans (who seem destined to become no more than cattle, though they know nothing of this) are ready. And the mysterious Ancient Ones, the true natives of Corus and assumed to have died out in eons past, still survive, and they have their own powers. The situation builds toward an explosive climax.
L. E. Modesitt, Jr., is the bestselling author of the fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, Corean Chronicles, and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante, the Ecolitan novels, the Forever Hero Trilogy, and Archform: Beauty. Besides a writer, Modesitt has been a US Navy pilot, a director of research for a political campaign, legislative assistant, and staff director for a US congressman, director of legislation and congressional relations for the US Environmental Protection Agency, a consultant on environmental, regulatory, and communications issues, and a college lecturer. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.
Kyle McCarley is a graduate of the University of Southern California and an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. His credits include audiobooks, video games, anime, cartoons, commercials, radio dramas, e-learning software, podcasts, voicemail auto-attendants, and even a toy plush monkey. He can be heard in television shows such as Durarara!! and Nickelodeon's Every Witch Way; games such as Unepic, Dragon Nest, Vindictus, and MapleStory; audiobooks such as the Earphones Award winner The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison and The Prince of Shadows by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine; commercials for the web, radio, and television; and much, much more.