Darkship Thieves
 Athena Hera Sinistra never wanted to go to space. Never wanted see the eerie glow of the Powerpods. Never wanted to visit Circum Terra. Never had any interest in finding out the truth about the DarkShips. You always get what you don’t ask for. Which must have been why she woke up in the dark of shipnight, within the greater night of space in her father’s space cruiser, knowing that there was a stranger in her room. In a short time, after taking out the stranger—who turned out to be one of her father’s bodyguards up to no good, she was hurtling away from the ship in a lifeboat to get help. But what she got instead would be the adventure of a lifetime—if she managed to survive . . . .
About the Author
Sarah A. Hoyt has sold a dozen novels in various genres, including her new Musketeers Mysteries series, starting with Death of a Musketeer, and her acclaimed Shakespearean fantasy series, which started with the Mythopoeic award finalist, Ill Met by Moonlight. An avid history buff and longtime reader of sci-fi, fantasy, and mysteries Sarah has published over three dozen short stories in esteemed magazines such as Asimov's, Analog, Amazing and Weird Tales, as well as several anthologies. Residing in Colorado with her husband, two teen boys and a pride of cats, Sarah is hard at work on her next dozen novels.
Cover Art by Tom Kidd
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 Hardcover
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, January 2010
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-3317-0
ISBN-10: 1-4391-3317-4
Copyright© 2010 by Sarah A. Hoyt
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
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To Robert A. Heinlein,
the man who pointed the way to the stars,
and who taught me that the future
is always better than the past.
My work is unworthy of the master,
but it is the best I have to offer.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to my wonderful publisher, Toni Weisskopf for letting me play in space. Thank you to Eric S. Raymond for catching some of the technological miscues in the early manuscript. Thank you to the usual gang(pressed) first readers: Pam Uphoff, Amanda Green, Kate Paulk, Rob Hampson, and others, who helped me make this a better story. And as always, thank you to my husband Dan and my sons, Robert Anson and Eric Marshall, for putting up with the insanity as I wrote this.
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