Of Fire and Night

Genre sci-fi Author Kevin J. Anderson Publisher Warner Aspect Books External Links Official Warner Aspect Books Website

Of Fire and Night is the fifth book in the Saga of Seven Suns series written by Kevin J. Anderson. This science fiction/fantasy novel describes the alien robots, the Klikiss robots, and their "Trojan horse" styled attack on Earth. The irrational chairman of the Hansa, Basil Wenceslas, effectively sells out humanity with his refusal to act in its defense and his refusal to help the other colonies, which makes enemies that humanity cannot afford to have. In light of this, humanity must rally together for its own survival against the enemy setting in motion the inevitable conflict with the hydrogues that will thrill readers to its tremendous climax.

As readers of the Saga of Seven Suns series well know, Kevin J. Anderson is a master at creating a chronicle that envelopes the booklover in his world of action, adventure, and space-opera glitz. His action remains character driven in this volume, which serves to further hook the reader into the fiery science-fiction thrills of his galaxy and his vision. It is no small wonder that readers are salivating at the prospect of each further volume to this tale and that its popularity is launching Anderson well into the stratosphere as a classically-styled fiction writer with an elegance for thrills.

The characters are almost explosive in their overwhelming depth, leaping off the page and into imagination with a creative energy that is rarely paralleled in modern sci-fi writing. It is tremendously easy to create a mental picture of the human-hating Klikiss robots with Anderson's authentic detail touches and the reader almost leaps out of the way as the robots lunge into attack on earth, creating an volatile attachment between author and reader that leaves sci-fi bookworms breathless and panting for more out of this remarkable world of adventure.

Kevin J. Anderson juggles the characters and storylines of Of Fire and Night like an practised classical composer tuning and blasting out grand music from each of his orchestra sections and never loses the reader in the invariable galactic shuffle of his tale, creating the inevitable desire for more that keeps the Saga of Seven Suns as popular as ever with growing readership longing for the thrills of the conclusion.

This fifth book in the phenomenal space action tale is effectively a generous scene-setter for the final chapters in the sixth and seventh volumes, but it fulfills its role by offering the excitement of a stand-alone tale creating a wealth of knowledge and gleeful enthusiasm from the reader as they ardently wait in earnest for the next piece of Anderson's intergalactic adventure puzzle. Of Fire and Night is comparable to watching an intergalactic game of chess, but with more engaging action to guide the reader's way through the complexity.

Kevin J. Anderson is also the author of several Star Wars and X-Files novels, as well as the extremely popular Dune prequels and he brings that theatrical energy to his own series without losing a step. Fans of those series' will likely become fans of the Saga of Seven Suns as well and will find Of Fire and Night a firmly explosive piece to the remarkable legend.