Fire Sanctuary

by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Cat Kimbriel, Katherine Kimbriel

Overview

"Closer to DUNE on an epic scale than to any of the Darkover or Pern novels."
--Shiny Book Review (on The Chronicles of Nuala Series)
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Poised between empires, the people of Nuala are survivors. They have fought the deadly radiation levels of their world, battling frightening mutations and genetic shift.

An Axis Empire soldier is about to marry a Nualan princess. But there are those who would kill to keep an Axis warrior from marrying a Nualan . . . and those who think it's the perfect smoke screen to keep anyone from noticing where the border is about to shift.

Nuala means survival. Survival against all odds, all enemies, all fortune. They're going to have to prove it.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013848191
Publisher:	Book View Cafe
Publication date:	03/29/2011
Series:	The Chronicles of Nuala , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

In the beginning Katharine Eliska Kimbriel was nominated for the Campbell Award for Best New SF/Fantasy Writer. Kimbriel wrote literate, character-driven SF and Fantasy. Then she became really ill and tried to die. Do you know that if you win the throw with Death, you become a wizard?

Published novels include the historical dark fantasies NIGHT CALLS and KINDRED RITES From HarperPrism. On the science fiction side you will find FIRE SANCTUARY, FIRES OF NUALA, and HIDDEN FIRES, stand-alone tales which take place on the same planet.

Katharine is managed by a Burmese cat and a handful of gargoyles. Her occasional hobbies have included ballroom dancing, Xeriscaping and macrobiotic cooking.

Go to her web site for the most recent info; she posts at her Live Journal blog (Alfreda89) which runs downhill to Facebook, Twitter and other points east. She is a member of Book View Cafe and Backlist Ebooks, and books and info may also be found there.

Editorial Reviews

"much upheaval, much intrigue, and much romance. . .a particularly fine mix."

Locus Magazine

An ambitious book, at once a cultural extrapolation, a love story, and the struggle for control of an unusual planet. A tale of loyalties, intrigue, action. . .entwining the fates of people and worlds.

Cover of book - Roger Zelazny

"FIRE SANCTUARY is an excellent novel, full of believable characters, interesting challenges, cross-cultural romance, and a goodly amount of action. Really, the only bad thing about FIRE SANCTUARY is this -- it needs a sequel. Grade: A."

Shiny Book Review - Barb Caffrey

Both the world and its inhabitants held me absolutely spellbound through two successive readings. Kimbriel was nominated for the John Campbell Award on the strength of this, her first novel. She didn’t win it, but. . .the prize would have been richly deserved.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Forum

Both the world and its inhabitants held me absolutely spellbound through two successive readings. Kimbriel was nominated for the John Campbell Award on the strength of this, her first novel. She didn't win it, but. . .the prize would have been richly deserved.

Magazine - Science Fiction and Fantasy Forum