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Kathy Tyersová

    Cette auteure explore la relation complexe entre l'humanité et le progrès technologique, se concentrant souvent sur des dilemmes moraux et les implications spirituelles de la science. Son style d'écriture se caractérise par une narration fluide et une plongée profonde dans la psychologie des personnages confrontés à l'inconnu. À travers son œuvre, elle cherche à susciter une réflexion sur le sens de la vie et la place de l'humanité dans le cosmos. Ses histoires offrent un mélange captivant d'imagination et d'interrogation philosophique.

    Star Wars: Balance Point
    Wind and Shadow
    Daystar
    Shivering World
    • Shivering World

      • 464pages
      • 17 heures de lecture
      4,5(23)Évaluer

      A planet on the edge of life. A woman on the edge of hope.Microbiologist Graysha Brady-Phillips accepts a hazardous position assisting in terraforming the planet Goddard, partly to get out of debt and partly in desperate hope. There's a chance that the colonists are conducting illegal genetic research, which could provide a cure for the genetic disorder slowly killing her.But genetic engineering is banned by the powerful Eugenics Board, and Graysha is the daughter of the board's high commissioner. When the colonists discover her connection, she is ostracized-for the possible penalties for conducting their radical research include death. Graysha tries to pursue her profession and befriend the colonists, but soon she is dodging attempts on her life.When her new world is pushed to the brink, Graysha must decide what she will cling to.

      Shivering World
    • Daystar

      • 528pages
      • 19 heures de lecture
      4,4(6)Évaluer

      *** ACFW Carol Award ***Times have changed for the telepathic Sentinels in the realm of the Federate Whorl.Persecution sends these genetically altered people fleeing to their sanctuary world, but a shipboard disaster exposes High Commander Brennen Caldwell to fatal radiation.Elsewhere, wrongfully imprisoned Sentinel Jorah Caldwell receives a supernatural visitor, who hails Jorah as Boh-Dabar, the prophesied Word to Come. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger arrives at the sanctuary world, also claiming to be Boh-Dabar.Soon, a tangle of interstellar incidents threatens the Sentinel kindred’s very existence. And no one—anywhere—has anticipated the events that will shake the interstellar Federacy.

      Daystar
    • The once-proud people of Mikuhr are now on the verge of extinction.Taken from her home world of Mikuhr at a young age, Wind Haworth was raised by the conquering Sentinels. Although her loyalties are torn, she is determined to bridge the gap between the two cultures and their opposing ideologies, even if she must stand alone.Conflict explodes when apprentice priest Kiel Caldwell arrives on Mikuhr to explore rumors of new spiritual revelation, but he is kidnapped by a demon-possessed telepath who thinks Kiel might be a predicted messiah. And when Kiel's brother Kinnor, a loose-cannon military man, arrives to investigate, a local leader with revenge on her mind threatens to bring ruin on them all.As a Mikuhran diplomat, Wind must head off a conflict that could have spiritual, political, and military ramifications. But when Wind encounters Kinnor, the situation becomes more personal than anyone expects.

      Wind and Shadow
    • In the aftermath of one tragedy, will a young Jedi's search for redemption lead to yet another? There is no place else to channel the flood of refugees fleeing the murderous Yuuzhan Vong but the overcrowded planet Duro, poisoned by centuries of technological excess. Fortunately a deal is struck:... číst celé

      Star Wars: Balance Point