Cover of Firestar

Firestar

Book 1 of the Firestar series

In 1972, young corporate heiress Mariesa van Huyten sees a meteor streak across the daytime sky over the Grand Tetons. It awakens an all-consuming fear in her, a fear that the Earth is living on borrowed time in a hostile solar system. With a trusted inner circle and vast resources, she aims to make her planet strong.

Genre
science fictionhard science fictionspace opera
Setting
near future
Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 896 pages

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