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Forge of the Titans


THE OLD GODS ARE RETURNING-
AND SOME OF THEM ARE NOT
FRIENDLY!

When Derek Secrest was suddenly pulled out of Naval flight officer school to take part in a top secret government project involving telepathybecause tests showed that he had a strong latent talent for psi powers he thought things couldn't get weirder. He was wrong.

Soon he was contacted by a mysterious woman who could open portals at will through spacetime. Her powers seemed godlikeand they were. Millennia ago, extra-dimensional beings with great powers had come to earth and taken on human form, remembered in legends as gods and goddessesand titans, the ancient enemies of the gods. The godlike beings had driven off the titans, but now the old enemy is returning, with a new plan to use humans with psionic abilities to rule the Earth, and not be driven from it this time. And the titans always did have a fondness for human sacrifice.

Unless Derek and a handful of other telepaths can join forces with the ancient gods to defeat the titans, the world will be plunged into a new dark age of terror and death. Even so, judging from mythology, how much can you really trust a god. . . ?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Steve White was an officer in Naval Intelligence, and served in the Mediterranean and the Vietnam War Zone. In addition to the Starfire series with David Weber, he has written several popular science fiction adventure novels for Baen. They include the trilogy comprising The Disinherited, Legacy and Debt of Ages, which combine fast-paced space opera with Arthurian mythology. He has also written the galaxy-spanning adventure Prince of Sunset, and its sequel Emperor of Dawn. His latest is Eagle Against the Stars. He currently works for a legal publishing company in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is married and has three daughters.

Cover painting by David Mattingly
Cover design by Carol Russo Design


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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, June 2003

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ISBN: 0-7434-3611-3

Copyright 2003 by Steve White

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To Sandy, who has her own kind of magic.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

In the common tongue of Khron, final vowels are always pronounced"Quire" rhymes with "why ray." The next-to-last syllable is normally stressed, with the exception of words with the "-uo" ending (meaning "people of" and pronounced as "yew-oh"); in these words, the last syllable before the ending is stressed. Otherwise, readers are on their own.

Baen Books by Steve White

Forge of the Titans
Eagle Against the Stars
Emperor of Dawn
Prince of Sunset
The Disinherited
Legacy
Debt of Ages

With David Weber

Insurrection
Crusade
In Death Ground
The Shiva Option

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