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"Do-overs" are possible.The crystalline network allows reality to be reset to past moments in time…After a routine reset on her homeworld, Elle Hartmut instead awakens on a spaceship. Her body is different, she has new magical abilities, and she's told that the fate of known civilization is in her hands.An alien Darkness is corrupting entire worlds.Elle and a team of magically enhanced companions embark on an interstellar quest to seal the Master Archive—the only hope of restoring the infected planets.Ancient relics may hold the key to salvation.With only vague clues to guide them, Elle and her new friends must gather legendary artifacts to protect the Archive. But if they can't unravel the ancient secrets in time, their worlds and loved ones will be lost in shadow forever.Crystalline Space offers a fun blend of sci-fi and fantasy adventure with a sleek...

From Publishers WeeklyOvercoming a slow start, de Pierres (_Nylon Angel_) presents an engaging space opera with plenty of action. Sheltered baronessa Mira Fedor, a minor noble of the mining planet Araldis, expects to become the first female pilot of the royal fleet's AI command ship. She instead finds herself on the run from the Principe, who wants to tear away her piloting skills and give them to his son, Trinder Pellegrini. When playboy Trin enrages his father and is banished to a meaningless desk job, he uncovers machinations related to the family's mines that may be connected with a burgeoning alien invasion. Playing with the time line, de Pierres creates an absorbing story as the consequences and actions resolve to show her grand design. Twists and hints will keep readers eagerly awaiting the next volumes. (Jan.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review'DARK SPACE lacks focus, but the colourful characters and sense of scale suggest that the series could develop into something special' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Dark Space is a rich and vigorous adventure and a promising first instalment' THE AUSTRALIAN 'A complex and exciting novel, almost devoid of cheap sentiment and comfortable vindication. It's not a cheerful read, but it is a very rewarding one ... de Pierres' willingness to display the imperfections of her characters is a large part of the appeal of Dark Space; she deftly handles the aspects of bringing characters to life that elude so many space opera writers, simply by making them genuinely human - with all the contradictory drives and motives that implies ... While a deeply political book, Dark Space is also a very engaging one - the fine characterisation and subtle writing make for a novel which is both exciting and thought-provoking at once ... It's always a joy to find intelligent and exciting space opera; to find it being written by a woman unafraid to bring her own perspective to a traditionally masculine genre, doubly so.' SCALPEL MAGAZINE 'Dark Space is an exciting adventure with plenty going on to keep you turning the pages. The story is primed to enter uncharted territory at the end of Book One. Marianne has a knack for creating compelling characters in complex realities-the Parish Plessis novels showed us that-so this is one to watch as it develops through the next volumes.' AUREALIS 'Reading a Marianne de Pierres novel is almost like immersing yourself in a brilliantly detailed film - you find yourself engrossed in not only the plot and characterization, but in the highly visual nature of the story ... In Dark Space, Marianne de Pierres has drawn a vast cast of characters, but the skill with which she has done so, providing them with depth and breadth without verbosity, and the fascinating relationships she has created between them, mean the reader can be drawn deeply into the world, surfacing only now and then to take a deep breath, then dive right back in. I can't wait for the next instalment!' ANDROMEDA SPACEWAYS INFLIGHT MAGAZINE 'This is serious modern space opera, grappling with big themes and painting on a broad canvas with a great eye for detail ... readers who hunger for perceptive, intelligent and unflinching literary science fiction should seek this book out as soon as possible. If the sequels to Dark Space live up to the promise of this opening salvo, de Pierres will become a serious challenge to the big boys of the genre.' HUB 'Space opera supreme' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

"Rivers (Snowfall) and Knox (Truly) will pull readers in with their wonderful writing style and interesting story about endings, beginnings, and finding yourself." —Library Journal College senior Winnie Frederickson has accomplished nothing in four years but summa cum laude and the power of invisibility. A professor's kid, carelessly popular Cal Darling feels like he's been going to college forever. If there's anything left to learn, he's not going to find it in the classroom. The theater department's "make-out class" is famously hard to get into, and what goes on between the twelve people who take it every spring is an annual topic of speculation. Winnie needs one more arts class to appear well-rounded for fellowships. Cal is just ... bored. The dark space—a class, a place, a state of mind—is ready for them both.

New to the series? Get Books 1-3 here for a special price: smarturl.it/darkspace1-3amz & Book 4, "Revenge" at smarturl.it/darkspace4amz The Sythians Invaded Again Dark Space, the last refuge of humanity, is overrun; its citizens are either enslaved or dead. The relentless Sythians have slaughtered humanity wherever they could find them, and now only a few hundred survivors remain. Desperate to escape, these few chase rumors of a lost sector of humanity and end up on Avilon, a planet covered with a vast, kilometers-high city that lies hidden and shielded from the rest of the galaxy by its impossibly advanced technology and its benevolent ruler--Omnius, the Artificial Intelligence who would be god to his human creators. Humanity Found Refuge on Avilon Omnius reveals that no one really died in the war--he couldn't save them from the Sythians, but he did find a way to record the contents of their brains and resurrect them all in the bodies of immortal clones. Omnius keeps a record of everyone’s mind in order to make predictions about the future and prevent people from making mistakes. The result is a perfect paradise where you can be assured of a happy, successful life for the rest of eternity--just so long as you are willing to give up your freedom and submit to Omnius's will. If you refuse, you can live in the Null Zone, a city that lies cloaked in shadows below the immortal paradise where Omnius reigns supreme. In the Null Zone humanity has its freedom, but the result is chaos, death, and forced separation from everyone living in the Upper Cities of Avilon. Paradise for Some is a Prison for Others To Ethan Ortane, who spent years exiled on a prison world in Dark Space, Avilon and its utter lack of freedom is the Netherworld incarnate, and Omnius the Devlin himself. His son, Atton, is not so sure--it's hard to argue with Omnius's governance when death and suffering have become just a distant memory. Even better, it looks like Avilon with all of its advanced technology might finally be able to put an end to the Sythians. Omnius is sending his Peacekeepers to Dark Space to rescue the human slaves and take the fight to the invaders. . . . The Road to the Netherworld is Paved with Good Intentions . . . Despite the Sythian apocalypse, Omnius knows that humanity's worst enemy has always been itself. Darkness lies in the human heart and if paradise is to be maintained, that darkness must be contained. For Omnius the rightness or wrongness of an action is determined by a mathematical equation: the choice with maximal benefit for humanity and minimal detriment is always the right one. And with his ability to predict the future, who could be better suited to making those judgments? But when the looming detriment defies the very purpose of Omnius's existence, the benefit that outweighs it depends very much on one's point of view. . . .About the AuthorJasper Scott is the USA Today best-selling author of more than 10 novels written across various genres. He was born and raised in Canada by South African parents, with a British cultural heritage on his mother's side and European Dutch on his father's, to which he has now added Latin culture with his wonderful wife. Jasper spent years living as a starving artist before finally quitting his various jobs to become a full-time writer. In his spare time he enjoys reading, traveling, going to the gym, and spending time with his family. 

Book 3 of the #1 Best-Selling Space Opera in the UK & #1 Space Fleet in the US--Dark Space New to the series? Get Dark Space 1 here: http://goo.gl/9fQnT6 & Dark Space 2 here: http://goo.gl/QaigbQ THE DEFIANT IS STRANDED Ethan and his son, Atton, have been arrested for high treason and conspiracy, crimes which will surely mean the death sentence, but it's beginning to look like theirs aren't the only lives in jeopardy--the Defiant is stranded in Sythian Space, and the vessel which Commander Caldin sent to get help has used all its fuel to get to Obsidian Station, only to find out that the station has been destroyed. Now the Defiant's last hope for a rescue is gone, and everyone on board is about to die a cold, dark death. HUMANITY IS STILL FIGHTING ITSELF Meanwhile, the notorious crime lord, Alec Brondi, is plotting to capture the remnants of Admiral Hoff's fleet, just as he captured the Valiant, but Hoff's men are on to him, and Brondi is about to get a lot more than he bargained for, forcing him to flee to the one place he knows will be safe--Dark Space. AND A NEW INVASION IS ABOUT TO BEGIN But Dark Space is only safe because the alien invaders don't know exactly where it is, and now they have a plan to find it which will threaten not only Dark Space, but the entire human race.**

There is a traitor in their midst, and Shawn Kestrel believes he’s figured out who it is. But, before he can confront them, an unfortunate series of events takes him out of the cockpit and places him behind a desk—possibly for all time. Determined to bring the culprit to justice, Shawn will risk everything he’s accomplished so far, including the affections of Melissa Graves, in order to safeguard the lives of thousands. On a world-hopping journey that will take Shawn and Melissa deep into Meltranian space, what they uncover will alter the course of the war against the Meltranians. But Meltranian territory holds many secrets, and only with the help of his allies and former enemies will Shawn be able to decipher the mysteries of the dark space before it’s too late.

**The Sequel to the #1 Best-Selling Space Opera in the UK / #1 Space Fleet in the USA--Dark Space (rankings refer to Kindle Store not printed books).New to the series? Get Dark Space 1 here for a special price: goo.gl/tdPkU THEIR SHIP IS DAMAGEDEthan Ortane has just met his long lost son, Atton, but the circumstances could have been better. After a devastating bio-attack and the ensuing battle, they've fled Dark Space aboard the Defiant to get away from the crime lord, Alec Brondi, who has just stolen the most powerful vessel left in the Imperial Fleet--the Valiant, a five-kilometer-long gladiator-class carrier. THEY ARE LOW ON FUELThey need reinforcements to face Brondi, but beyond Dark Space the comm relays are all down, meaning that they must cross Sythian Space to contact the rest of the fleet. Making matters worse, they are low on fuel, so they can't jump straight there. They'll have to travel on the space lanes to save fuel, but the lanes are controlled by Sythians now, and they are fraught with entire fleets of cloaked alien ships. AND THERE IS NO WAY OUTWith Brondi behind them, they can't go back, and they can't afford to leave the last human sector in the galaxy to the crime lords, so they must cross through enemy territory in the Defiant, a damaged, badly undermanned cruiser with no cloaking device. Making matter worse, trouble is brewing aboard the cruiser, dropping their chances of survival from slim . . . to none. **