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Needle
Adult • Science Fiction • Fantasy • Adventure
Inverted Frontier, Book 3
Inverted Frontier
• Book 3 of 4
Long ago Lezuri warned that Tanjiri is not for everyone, yet Urban still carries the impossible puzzle Lezuri left him: a twelve-centimeter, ultra-thin needle whose silvery surface splits light and contains all of Lezuri’s locked knowledge. Urban can only gain that knowledge if he discovers how to open the enigma, and he believes doing so will let him face what waits in Tanjiri.
Dragon and its fleet of outriders has reached the periphery of the Tanjiri system, a maze of ruined megastructures and a quieter interior where an Earthlike world orbits a living moon created less than four thousand years ago. The system has offered no reply to Dragon’s hails, and Urban fears the maker of that moon may be greater than Lezuri and that the lives of everyone he loves will depend on what he does with the needle.
Urban believes he must unlock Lezuri’s mysterious twelve-centimeter needle before Dragon’s fleet enters the silent, hazardous Tanjiri system where a maker may wait.
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Book details
- Series
- Inverted Frontier Book 3 of 4
- Publisher
- Mythic Island Press LLC
- Publication date
- August 22, 2023
- Print length
- 356 pages
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781937197407
Science Fiction + Fantasy + Adventure
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What to Know Before Reading Needle
The description focuses on a central puzzle and a looming external threat. Much of the setup centers on Urban’s personal connection to Lezuri’s needle and his belief that its knowledge will affect the lives of those he loves. The speculative elements include ruined megastructures, an Earthlike world, and a living moon created under four thousand years ago. This may appeal more to someone interested in exploration, high-stakes confrontation, and technological mysteries within a spacefaring setting.
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About the author
Linda Nagata
Linda Nagata (born November 7, 1960, in San Diego, California) is a Hawaii-based American author of speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy novels, novellas, and short stories. Her novella Goddesses was the first online publication to win the Nebula Award. She frequently writes in the Nanopunk genre, which features nanotechnology and the integration of advanced computing with the human brain.
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