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Burning Bright

By: Melissa Scott
Narrated by: Jacqueline MacDonald
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In Burning Bright, Scott tells a passionate, colorful tale of love and death, her best yet. Setting her story on the free-port planet of Burning Bright, nexus of trade, politically balanced between the human and Hsai empires in space, and center of virtual reality gaming for all of civilization, Scott weaves a network of intrigue and suspense.

When space pilot and ambitious young game developer Quinn Lioe gets shore leave on Burning Bright, determined to play the game at its brilliant center, she becomes enmeshed in the conflict between two great empires, a key figure upon whom the fates of fortune turn.

Once again, Scott constructs a brilliantly complex future society and tells a story that involves the mind and the heart. This is science fiction adventure at its classic best.

©1994 Melissa Scott (P)2021 David N. Wilson Adventure Science Fiction Fiction Game Heartfelt
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if you liked Dreamships, this is similar. A slightly space operatic queer cyberpunk thriller of sorts featuring immersive gaming, backstabbing political intrigue, jostling for position and heavy intricate world building. it's all about power and plays for power, and whose hand is really on the wheel. the production could have done with a proper editor on the recording but I'm not really too concerned about that. recommended and I hope more of Scott's books appear on Audible because she's a solid writer!

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