The Making War

The Making War

When humans can create new species, what rights do they have over the beings they create?

The Making War is the long-awaited final book in the award-winning series that began with The Silver Ship and the Sea.

Six genetically engineered children fought to survive in a small town where everyone hated what they were, on a difficult planet full of out-sized predators with long teeth and sharp claws. Because they were stronger than the colonists, they found a way to live, and eventually a way to leave.

Alicia wants nothing more than to fly.

But if she survives the dangerous transformation that will give her wings, she will become a slave.

In the meantime, her ex-lover Joseph plans to fight for her freedom in a battle between two opposing planets. Powerful fleets are about to meet in the empty dark of space, and he wants neither to win. For help, he has his family, including his pacifist sister and his border collie.

The Making War was released on October 7, 2020.

The Making War:
Trade paperback $19.99. ISBN 978-1-68057-110-3
Ebook $4.99. ISBN 978-1-68057-111-0
476 pages

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Genres: Alien Contact, Cyberpunk
ASIN: 1680571109
ISBN: 9781680571103
Endorsements
"Interplanetary war is a hook, but the characters will be the true catch."
– Booklist
“. . . fans will be pleased to check back in with this complex space opera world. Readers will be satisfied, if not wowed.”
– Publishers Weekly
"The Making War is a grand story told in epic scale. Finishing the Fremont’s Children saga, Brenda Cooper completes a journey that began in book one with six waifs whose actions reshape civilized space. Deeply satisfying, compelling, human in all ways, an exploration into the morality of power, and a fine, fine read. Highly recommended."
– James Van Pelt, bestselling author of Pandora’s Gun
"The Making War is technologically inventive without once losing sight of the human heart. A satisfying end to Cooper's series."
– Nancy Kress, Hugo and Nebula-winning author
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About the Author
Brenda Cooper

Brenda Cooper is the author of eleven science fiction and fantasy
books. Her most recent novels are Keepers (Pyr, 2018) and Wilders
(Pyr, 2016). Her other works include POST (Espec Books, 2016),
Spear of Light (Pyr, 2016), Edge of Dark (Pyr, 2015), The Creative
Fire (Pyr, 2012), and The Diamond Deep (Pyr, 2013) as well as the
Fremont's Children series (available in audio today, and now being re-released via Wordfire Press), and Building Harlequin's Moon, with Larry Niven (Tor, 2005).

Her most recent short fiction includes "The Hand on the Cradle" (Humanity 2.0, 2016), "Iron Pegasus," (Mission Tomorrow, 2015), Biology at the End of the World (Asimov's, August 2015),
and Elephant Angels (Heiroglyph, 2014).

Brenda blogs frequently on environmental and futurist topics, and her non-fiction has appeared in Slate and Crosscut.

She is the winner of the 2007 and 2016 Endeavor Awards for
"a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors." Her work has also been nominated for the Phillip K. Dick and Canopus awards.

A technology professional, Brenda is the Chief Information Officer for the City of Kirkland, which is a Seattle suburb.

Brenda was educated at California State University, Fullerton, where she earned a BA in Management Information Systems. She earned an MFA at Stonecoast, a program of the University of Southern Maine.

Brenda lives in Woodinville, Washington with her family and four dogs.

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