StarBridge 6: Ancestor's World (Crispin, A. C., King, T. Jackson, Starbridge 6.)

An Archeologist Opens an Ancient Tomb. His Discovery Reveals A Secret. A Secret Some Will Kill to Keep Buried. On the planet Na-Dina, the tombs in the Ancestors Valley have lain undisturbed for six thousand years. A fully intact royal chamber promises treasures beyond reckoning, but no one expected ancient Mizari artifacts. When a member of the team is brutally murdered, Ambassador-at-Large Mahree Burroughs arrives, determined to find the killerno matter the cost. What she discovers will change her life, the lives of the Na-Dina, and the lives of everyone in the Cooperative League of Systems. Praise for the StarBridge Series Rousing adventurea very exciting and reader-enticing series! Andre Norton This series offers well-told tales with a welcome note of realism about interspecies relationshipsRecommended. Booklist This is space opera in the best traditionjust tremendous; Im delighted to recommend it. Judith Tarr A highly emotional and surprisingly successful storyWith its touches of humor, and an intriguing set of characters, the action-packed plot races along! Locus the series is batting a thousand! Dragon Review "T. Jackson King is a professional archaeologist and he uses that to great advantage in Ancestor's World. I was just as fascinated by the details of the archaeology procedures as I was by the unfolding of the plot . . . The novel opens with the discovery of artifacts from the lost colony of the Mizari in a tomb of an ancient Na-Dina emperor. This is a discovery that the modernist faction of the Na-Dina do not want getting out, and some of them will do anything to keep it under wraps. What follows is a tightly plotted, suspenseful novel."---Absolute Magnitude magazine" The latest in the StarBridge series from King, a former Rogue Valley resident now living and writing in Arizona, follows the action on planet Na-Dina, where the tombs of 46 dynasties have lain undisturbed for 6,000 years until a human archaeologist and a galactic gumshoe show up. Set your phasers for fun."--Mail Tribune newspaper "Another of A.C. Crispin's StarBridge adventures, this one fleshed out by T. Jackson King. There is a murder on the world of Na-Dina, at an archaeological dig in Ancestor's Valley where Human and other archaeologists are in the process of finding artifacts that contradict the beliefs of many of the planet's natives. The murder is only one element of the plot, but its solution winds up the story nicely. Recommended."---Norm Hartman, Book Net #10" In this book Ambassador Burroughs and archaeologist Gordon Mitchell become the targets of a radical faction that will do anything to gain the power of more advanced species, even kill . . . this was another fine book in the (StarBridge) series and a tribute to King."--Lyn McConchie, author of the Beastmaster series From the Author T. Jackson King (Tom) is a professional archaeologist and journalist. He writes hard science fiction, anthropological scifi, dark fantasy/horror and contemporary fantasy/magic realism--and he never took a college creative writing class nor bowed and scarped to a literary opinion-maker. That said, Tom has long loved a good story. He works at sharing his best efforts in imaginative stories with reader worldwide. And for those who like to know where an author grew up or has lived as an adult, the answer is Lots Of Places! Some of them include Garden Grove, Calif.; Belmont, Calif.; Medford, Oregon; New Orleans, LA; Paris, France; Tokyo, Japan; Nashville, TN; Knoxville, TN; Silver City, New Mexico; Show Low, Arizona; Salt Lake City, Utah; Pinetop, AZ; Huntsville, Alabama; Tucson, AZ; Cortez, Colorado; Safford, AZ; and Riverside, Calif. The three book series written by David Drake, of which this is the third, is chock full of adventure and the complexity of spirit of those who fight for others. In Fireships, we see the conclusion of the war Venus has no choice but to fight if it would survive - which seems doubtful at many times - and the sacrifice as well as the healing of many main characters - which also seems doubtful at times. While it is at the tail end of the three book series: Igniting the Reaches, Through the Breech and this one, Fireships - they each could stand alone on their own merits and are well worth your time to read them. The Venus Asteroid Expedition is en route to the "Mirror," an impenetrable membrane to another universe that holds all the riches of the Federation, but the only point of entry is the point through which Landolph and his men traveled long ago--with most of the men never returning. War breaks out between the human inhabitants of Venus and mother Earth, now a dictatorship. The novel follows the adventures of Piet Ricimer, famous for his raids on Earth's colonies in space. He leads Venus in defeating an armada of Earth ships When Ancestor's Valley of tombs is threatened by visitors from the stars, archaeologist Gordon Mitchell and his team from StarBridge struggle to salvage the burial sites, until a team member is brutally killed