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Humanity settled the stars, only to fall into a catastrophic collapse. Now the Galactic Republic is on the rise again, but many dark planets remain—planets such as Duisenberg. Here, a single river cuts through a vast continental desert and a culture not unlike that of New Kingdom Egypt has developed. But this is an Egyptian social structure armed with flintlocks and blunderbusses and caught in a never ending cycle of nomadic invasion and repulsion. Duisenberg needs a hero to break the Land’s stasis and lead the people back from the galactic dark ages.
Enter Abel Dashian. The son of a local military commander, he is a courageous young man who has lost his mother to a simple infection. He is a young man who will dare anything to avenge his mother’s death and bring about change.
He is the Heretic.
Cover Art by Kurt Miller
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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, April 2013
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4516-3881-3
Copyright 2013 by Tony Daniel & David Drake
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