The War of the Red Dragon

Sometimes the greatest journey begins with leaving everything you know behind.

Steven Fogleman is desperate to leave his old life behind. When his former physics teacher, Mr. Waterman, disappears in the middle of the night, Steven follows him, never imagining that the journey will take him beyond Earth itself.

Waterman has been keeping an extraordinary secret. He comes from a civilization that has stretched across the stars for thousands of years: twenty-one inhabited worlds bound together ...