The Widening Gyre

✍ Scribed by Michael R. Johnston

• Book ID: 100637503
• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 151 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Fiction
• City: London Flame Tree Press [2019
• ISBN: 1787581462

✦ Synopsis

"Every now and then the Space Opera genre wakes up from its current day mediocrity, and something good shines under the light of a different star. This is what happened with this book." -Angelo Benuzzi

Eight hundred years ago, the Zhen Empire discovered a broken human colony ship drifting in the fringes of their space. The Zhen gave the humans a place to live and folded them into their Empire as a client state. But it hasn't been easy. Not all Zhen were eager to welcome another species into their Empire, and humans have faced persecution. For hundreds of years, human languages and history were outlawed subjects, as the Zhen tried to mold humans into their image. Earth and the cultures it nourished for millennia are forgotten, little more than legends.

One of the first humans to be allowed to serve in the Zhen military, Tajen Hunt became a war hero at the Battle of Elkari, the only human to be named an official Hero of the...