“If you like your military science fiction grounded in the real and in the probable, this is your book.”
More Books by Linda Nagata
The Nanotech Succession — Before Inverted Frontier, there was the Nanotech Succession. Explore more of this story world in this sequence of stand-alone novels:
Tech-Heaven (prequel)
The Bohr Maker (winner of the 1996 Locus Award for Best First Novel)
Deception Well
Vast
The Red Trilogy
The Red: First Light (Nebula Award nominee and finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award)
The Trials
Going Dark (finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award)
Stories of the Puzzle Lands (gritty dark fantasy)
The Dread Hammer — Book 1: a tale of love, war, murder, marriage, and fate
Hepen the Watcher — Book 2: a tale of exile, rebellion, fidelity, and fire
Other Story Worlds
The Last Good Man
Light and Shadow (a short-fiction collection)
Limit of Vision
Memory (finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award)
Goddesses & Other Stories (a short-fiction collection including the 2000 Nebula Award winner for best novella)
Skye-Object 3270a (young adult/middle grade)
Additional information on all of Linda Nagata’s books, including sample chapters and links to print and ebook versions, can be found at the author’s website: MythicIsland.com.
About the Author
Linda Nagata’s work has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, John W. Campbell Memorial, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial awards. She has won the Nebula and is a two-time winner of the Locus award.
Linda is best known for her high-tech science fiction, including the near-future thriller, The Last Good Man, and the Red trilogy, an intersection of artificial intelligence and military fiction. The first book in the trilogy, The Red: First Light, was named as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2015.
Linda has lived most of her life in Hawaii, where she’s been a writer, a mom, a programmer of database-driven websites, and an independent publisher. She lives with her husband in their long-time home on the island of Maui.
Review
“Edges runs on a lot of brain power, and it’s an intellectually stimulating read that posits some truly intriguing questions and ethical dilemmas […] While the bulk of Edges is interested in more heady affairs and the nature of mankind’s place in the cosmos, Nagata’s proficiency in writing action beats is certainly on strong and regular display […] as this book ramps up to its dizzying, frenetic climax….”
Edges is “a masterful effort, operating both at a slow burn and with a ratcheting intensity that comes to a stunning climax. Linda Nagata has once again given us a future that dances along a razor’s edge—entertaining, thrilling, humbling… and hopeful, despite the threat, despite the danger, despite the sacrifice.”
“In the imaginary coffee-house of my mind, Nagata’s Succession novels are hanging out with thematic and subgeneric cousins by Neal Asher, Iain M. Banks, Greg Bear, Greg Benford, Greg Egan, Kathleen Ann Goonan, and Robert Reed, discussing the post-human condition, how many nanotechnologies can fit on the head of a pin, the nature and place of sentience in the universe, and whether there is a Long Game in which humankind can play and survive. There’s a portrait of Olaf Stapledon hanging over the mantelpiece, along with a long-barreled raygun. Both are icons of the tradition.”
Copyright
Published by Mythic Island Press LLC
Kula, Hawaii
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are fictitious or are used fictitiously.
Edges
Copyright © 2019 by Linda Nagata.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.
ISBN 978-1-937197-27-8
Cover Art Copyright © 2019 by Sarah Anne Langton
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