Joel Shepherd, Author . Pyr $15 (457p) ISBN 978-1-59102-443-9
Set in the far future, Australian author Shepherd's energetic debut introduces Cassandra Kresnov, an experimental killer android-with-a-heart who has defected from her League Dark Star special ops assignment. Graced with a yen for human art...
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Joel Shepherd, Author . Pyr $15 (427p) ISBN 978-1-59102-540-5
In this action-packed sequel to Crossover
(2006), Australian author Shepherd revisits the far-future multiracial capital city Tanusha, where two factions, the League and the Federation, war over the future of the planet Callay, and the enigmatic...
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Joel Shepherd, Author . Pyr $15 (450p) ISBN 978-1-59102-598-6
The tense third Cassandra Kresnov novel (after Breakaway
) further develops the series' intriguing far-future setting. Cdr. Cassandra “Sandy” Kresnov, a “GI” genetically engineered to be a crack soldier and spy, is now...
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Joel Shepherd, Author . Pyr $16 (423p) ISBN 978-1-59102-787-4
Shephard's epic gets off to a slow start as feisty bladeswoman Sasha, her master, her princely brothers and Jaryd, a local heir, lecture one another about religious differences amid a hodgepodge of names and invented terms. Jaryd saves Sasha...
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Joel Shepherd, Author . Pyr $16 (441p) ISBN 978-1-61614-193-6
Picking up where 2009's Sasha
ended, Shepherd sets Sasha and her doughty band of human and serrin war leaders in the port city of Petrodor as Sasha's sister Alythia is married off to the noble Halmady family. This peace-treaty marriage...
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Joel Shepherd, Pyr, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-61614-244-5
The third (after Petrodor) of a projected four-book fantasy epic exemplifies middle book syndrome. After a rocky welcome in the titular port city, series heroine Sasha discovers her far-flung family gathering to attack Tracato for tangled political...
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Joel Shepherd. Pyr, $16.95 trade paper (439p) ISBN 978-1-61614-809-6
Part military SF, part techno-thriller, the fourth chapter in the Cassandra Kresnov series (after Killswitch) finds the cyborg soldier determined to stop a secretive planetary government from creating a new and even more inhuman army of genetically...
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Joel Shepherd. Pyr, $16.95 trade paper (463p) ISBN 978-1-61614-896-6
Readers may want a scorecard to keep track of all the plots within plots of Shepherd’s fifth Cassandra “Sandy” Kresnov SF thriller (following 23 Years on Fire). Sandy is a GI, an artificial human built by the Federation to be a super-soldier....
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Joel Shepherd. Pyr, $18 trade paper (520p) ISBN 978-1-61614-992-5
Super-cyborg warrior Cassandra "Sandy" Kresnov finds herself at the center of a complex plot that could lead to interstellar warfare in her crackling sixth adventure (after Operation Shield). Unknown terrorists have destroyed a moon with a League...
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