Fire of Life is the story of Phera, a three-mooned planet with night-sky seas of emerald, silver, and blue.In ancient days, the blood-dark Ebrin River swelled in springtime thaw from hardest winter, overflowed its rocky banks, and flooded the wide-strewn villages of the Chaucau. Forced together, their world unmoored, the fishing people flee from the flood-swept plain to the high mountain woods. They wander the wilderness. Season by season, their numbers thin, many lives lo...

On an ice-crusted moon in the spur of Orion, the twins Hana and Bao search for life. They drill, release cyber eels, probe the undersea depths. Dive by dive, their power drains low. The blood-freezing cold creeps nearer and nearer. Their hope fades in the dark frosted night. Together, alone, they find strength. In the poems of late Earth - the far East. From refugees fleeing the storm-ravaged wastelands of deep China. From a political prisoner awaiting execution, many faiths bridged by her...