Matriarch (44 page)
My grateful thanks go to Charlie Allery, Bryan Boult, Debbie Button, Suzanne Byrne, Karen Miller, Dawn Woodring, Dr. Ian Tregillis, and Chris “TK” Evans, for critical reading; to my editor, Diana Gill, and my agent, Russ Galen, for keeping me in line; and to Greg Bridges, for dazzling visual inspiration.
KAREN TRAVISS
is a former defense correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist. She's worked in public relations for the police and local government and has served in the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service and the Territorial Army. The
USA Today
bestselling author of
City of Pearl, Crossing the Line,
and
The World Before; Star Wars Republic Commando: Hard Contact
and
Triple Zero;
and
Star Wars Legacy of the Future: Bloodlust,
she lives in Wilshire, England.
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“Satisfyingly complexâ¦.[Traviss] at times evokes the earlier moral fables of Le Guinâ¦at other times the revisionist critique of expanding human empiresâ¦and at times the union of romance with SF that we see in the work of Catherine Asaro or Lois McMaster Bujoldâ¦. The fact that Traviss manages to keep these sometimes conflicting modes in balance, mostly through her strong sense of character, suggests that she's a writer worth watching.”
Locus
“A fascinating cast of characters involved in a richly complex situationâ¦. Her people are convincingly realâ¦. Traviss has created a vivid assortment of alien races, each with distinctive characteristics and agendasâ¦. She brings a rare combination of insight and experience that will greatly contribute to our field.”
James Alan Gardner, author of
Expendable
“Stellar.”
Jack McDevitt, author of
Deepsix
“Traviss takes what could have been a rote collection of characters (marines, cops, religious extremists) and slowly adds depth, complexity, and color.”
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Gregory Frost, author of
Fitcher's Brides
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
MATRIARCH
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