Издания и произведения

Сестры Несс сбежали из родного мира, мечтая о бурной, полной приключений жизни космоплавателей, охотников за сокровищами. Мечты сбылись, но за приключения пришлось заплатить собственной кровью и жизнями товарищей, а сокровища не принесли счастья. И теперь Адрана и Арафура вне закона: летящую на черных парусах «Мстительницу» преследует эскадра, нанятая теми, кто не умеет забывать и прощать. А возглавляет эскадру человек, давно привыкший добиваться своего любой ценой — и, что еще опаснее, обладающий необходимыми для этого талантами.

Quoins are accepted currency throughout the thousands of worlds of the Congregation. Ancient, and of unknown origin and purpose, people have traded with them, fought for them, and stolen quoin hordes from booby-trapped caches at risk to life and limb throughout the Thirteen Occupations. Only now it's becoming clear they have another purpose . . . as do the bankers who've been collecting them. The Occupations themselves are another puzzle. The rise and fall of civilisation may have been unevenly spaced across history, but there is also a pattern. Could something be sparking the Occupations - or ending them? And if so, what could it be,…

Quoins are accepted currency throughout the thousands of worlds of the Congregation. Ancient, and of unknown origin and purpose, people have traded with them, fought for them, and stolen quoin hordes from booby-trapped caches at risk to life and limb throughout the Thirteen Occupations. Only now it's becoming clear they have another purpose . . . as do the bankers who've been collecting them.

The Occupations themselves are another puzzle. The rise and fall of civilisation may have been unevenly spaced across history, but there is also a pattern. Could something be sparking the Occupations - or ending them? And if so, what could it be,…