"Kathy Tyers - Firebird 03 - Crown Of Fire" - читать интересную книгу автора (Tyers Kathy)and Carol.
Thanks to my specialists, General Bob and Doctor Bob, Bill, and Diann. She never could've flown steadily without you. Cheryl, Kathy, Karen, Chris, Basia, Gayla, and EdтАФYou held my hand before Firebird won her first wings. Thank you for your patience, ideas, encouragement, and loyalty. Thanks for your friendship down the years. Sharon, you've been there week after week. God bless. Tana, you picked up the pieces more times than you know. Andrew, April, Clint, Greg, Jane, Jo, Harry, Linda, John, Julie, Mario, Matthew, Peter, Rob, Sigmund, Sylvia, and Wynne, and my enthusiastic friends at [email protected]тАФThank you for letting me draw you into this other world, and thank you for making it so much broader. Finally, thanks to the holy and merciful One. You give and transcend all stories and songs. All of the best ideas in this trilogy came from all of you. Any inaccuracies, impossibilities, or accidental perversions of truth are mine alone. In this whorl of imagined star systems, God created not Earth but different worlds. One world's people lived by false doctrine and death. Light-years away, faithful exiles awaited the Messiah of all creation. On a third world, they met. WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE FIREBIRD Lady Firebird Angelo was sworn from birth to the service of Ne-taia's merciless state religion, the nine holy Powers, and doomed by her birth order. She was a wastling, forced to seek a "noble" death in battle as soon as her oldest sister, Princess Carradee, secured the royal succession. Sent to war as a combat pilot against the interstellar Federacy, Firebird was captured and interrogated by an enemy officer, Master Sentinel Brennen Caldwell. The most powerful starbred telepath of his generation, Brennen descended from a people who altered their children's genes to create telepathy. Only two known remnants of this Ehretan race survived a terrible civil war: Brennen's people, who called their psi-trained elite Sentinels, and a small but powerful group of renegades they called the Shuhr, or enemy. As a prisoner, Firebird watched her own Planetary Navy slaughter civilians and saw |
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