Hidden Empire: The Saga of Seven Suns - Book 1

Hidden Empire begins a dazzling space opera fit to stand with the classics of the genre, combining the politics of Frank Herbert's Dune, the scope of Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy, and the pageantry and romance of Star Wars; In the far future, humanity began to search the stars, sending out vast spaceships that would take generations to reach their goals. In the depths of space they encountered the Ildiran empire - apparently the galaxy's only other intelligent civilisation. The Ildirans came to Earth and passed on the knowledge of their stardrive, allowing humanity to expand to the stars. Almost two hundred years after that first contact, there are human colonies proliferating through the galaxy. As Mankind seized the future, danger comes from the past, for two human archaeologists glean forbidden knowledge from the ruins of a dead world. Once, the insect-like Klikiss ruled the stars. Now, only their robot servants remain, guardians of a terrible technology - the Klikiss Torch, which has the power to create suns. Now, Humanity prepares to flex its new found muscle and activate the Torch for the first time in millennia, but there are reasons the Klikiss empire fell, and a train of events is about to be set in motion, which will change the universe... Calc Series A (group): Saga of Seven Suns Number of Words in Auth: 3 Formats : EPUB, ZAB ABook : Have Title Parms BtoH : - - - - - - Compare Title Parm A to Author: gt Title First Parm : Hidden Empire Number of Authors : 1 Calc ESI Part 3 : 07 Calc ESI Part 2 : of Calc ESI Part 1 : 01 Test Search : Hidden Empire / Kevin J. Anderson Enter Series Index : 01 of 07 Calc Series Group : Saga of Seven Suns Title Post Pound : Hidden Empire Words in Author Name: 3 First Tag : Fantasy, Science Fiction Previous Series Index: 1 Test Text Series Index: 1 Raw Title : Hidden Empire Title Parm A Prefix : Hidden Empire Title Length : 13 Title Parm A : Hidden Empire Record ID : 210 Enter New Series (Calced): Serified_AnE.Saga of Seven Suns.Scifan.01 of 07..ICBF Author Parm Cn : Anderson ES Name : Saga of Seven Suns Series A : Saga of Seven Suns Calc New Series : Saga of Seven Suns.... Series Parm B : 1 Series Parm A : Saga of Seven Suns Number of Formats : 1 Title Pre Pound : Hidden Empire Whole Title : Hidden Empire Title After First Parm: Hidden Empire Title Suffix : Hidden Empire EBook : Have Uncomma Author : Kevin J. Anderson ES Genre : Scifan Compare Author : eq ES Group : Serified_AnE Test Compare Series to Entered: eq junk : >Hidden Empire>>Kevin J. Anderson ES Cover Quality : ICBF Quick Search : Kevin J. Anderson Saga of Seven Suns Has Cover : Yes All Identifiers : amazon:0316003441, ff:a/kevin-j-anderson/hidden-empire, goodreads:898232, isbn:9780316003445 Single Author : Kevin J. Anderson Sorted Author by LN, FN: Anderson, Kevin J. Num of Aut : 1 Calc ESI Combined : 01 of 190 Title Pre Parend : Hidden Empire Title Pre Colon : Hidden Empire Title Parm A Suffix : Empire Author Parm A : Kevin J. Anderson Number of Author Names: 3 In our galaxy's distant future, humans are one of three known intelligent races. Having had the ability to navigate star travel for only a few centuries, we are considered "the new kids on the block" in a long-established universe. The second intelligent race is the Ildirans, who are ruled by their Mage-Imperator; and the third race, the Klikiss, seems to have vanished and left behind a world full of artifacts and remarkable technology, which humans are now beginning to find and utilize. One such piece of technology is a device that has the power to turn a gaseous and useless supergiant planet into a small sun, thereby creating a new solar system in which humans can live. But when the device is tried for the first time, it awakens the wrath of a previously unsuspected fourth race, the Hydrogues -- and a galaxy-spanning war that threatens all life begins. Humans have colonized the worlds of the Spiral Arm and the rest of the galaxy seems to be theirs for the taking. The Klikiss Torch is a device capable of transforming gas giants into new suns, however, the Jovian worlds are home to an alien species. The victims of unintentional genocide, the advanced hydogues aren't looking for an apology or reparations when they launch their warships on a single mission to annihilate every last human in the universe

Having colonized other worlds, humans are certain the galaxy is theirs for the taking. But they soon discover the horrifying price of their arrogance when a scientific experiment awakens the wrath of the previously unknown Hydrogues and begins a war.

Kate Elliott

...epic scale...a tightly plotted, fast-moving adventure with all the right ingredients...and enough twists and turns to keep you asking for more.

Safe in orbit high above the gas giant, Margaret looked through the observation port at continent-sized hurricanes and clouds far below.