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The Platinum Mind series
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When James Stone is captured inside the artificial constellation of Evigone, he claims to have come from a planet called Earth and their worlds are copies of his. However, they suspect he has been created by a more familiar enemy, re-born to start another hundred years of war...
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Thrown out of Evigone by the Lords of Wuminger, the Tower of Panadawn and its avatars must find a new way to study the life of the artificial constellation. But first they have to get their human colleague back. Dumped in a desert on Earth, James Stone wakes up in a laboratory. In his blood is an alien virus and in his head, they’ve discovered an alien city. Before he can get back to Panadawn, to Evigone and before the scientists drill into his brain, there’s the small matter of the US army to evade.
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James Stone is a wanted man; a tsar wants to meet him. The Rickobites want to worship him. Even the White Hussars want him to join their ranks. Meanwhile, civil war is brewing on Cromorna. Atrocities multiply. And a prince, desperate for the Imperial throne, is willing to kill them all.
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James Stone's journey across the artificial constellation of Evigone reaches its final phase. With war facing him on all sides and the avatars of Panadawn plotting in the background, does he have what he needs to win? Or is there another solution he hasn't seen? Having been promised an army, what will the Sagan make of Panadawn? What will happen to Cromorna and to their king's dreams of independence if they change their minds? And what hidden horrors lie among the abandoned worlds of the Third Sphere?
The Evigone Novels
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Narikin, Prince of the Karasor, lives a simple if lonely life on the island of Kimidori on Penti Prime.
His father, Shōgun of clan Karasor, has no use for him, so he spends his time taking and developing photographs, pruning his miniature trees and walking his dog, Tosa.
On a rare trip to Kuchī Island, Narikin discovers the elite rangers, the heroes of his clan, are looking for volunteers. Rather than appear a coward, he joins the queue, knowing full well they will take one look at his weedy body and reject him. Unfortunately, his skill with a camera is exactly what they’re looking for.
The story of Narikin and the Karasor forms part of the Evgone series and takes place at the same time as Platinum Mind
Following on from his triumphs in The Karasor, Prince narikin is now a special ambassador to the Emperor. But everything he thought he'd won, turns out to be an illusion. Despite the Emperor's blessing, the other clans refuse to believe his story about phantoms and mantids and his father still wants him dead.
Worse still, the Eirenarch, the oldest living Penti, tells him his people have lost the favour of the Lords, the makers of the Evigone. The Eirenarch predicts the empire will fall and the people will starve if Narikin cannot find a way to unite them against the chaos that’s coming.
Narikin and Fengtai are living in exile on the university world of Rhyton. Their host is Moloch, the last tsar in the Third Sphere, guarded by the Sagan and a prisoner for all eternity.
Desperate to see Evigone again, Moloch tells Narikin about a device, a panopticon, that allows telepaths to communicate across the spheres. It may even allow Narikin to speak to the Lords and save his people...
All he has to do is steal a book from a locked vault, travel to a world inside the Taira mandate and defeat the genetically-modified monsters guarding it...
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Under the ice fields of Quagga is a secret that should never be found. Evigone has enjoyed fifty years of peace but one man is determined to turn back the clock and only a fourteen-year-old girl can help him.
Allis Ruddock has lived on the trading ship Picarel with her mother, uncles and their cook and his cat, all her life. Her father, a semi-telepathic Sagan, has been absent since her birth.
When the ship is hired to take two Rickobites to the forbidden planet of Quagga, little does she realise the part she has to play in the future of the whole of Evigone.
Eon ‘Fadge’ Dirigent, Marquis of Ytterbia, is over-privileged, over-educated and over-weight. He returns home after three years at the University of Rhyton to marry his fiancé of twenty years but as soon as she sees him, she calls him fat. He calls her arrogant. The Royal Court is appalled. The engagement is off.
To avoid further humiliation, Fadge’s father finds him a position with the diplomatic corps. But a simple task to claim unpaid taxes from Baron Yataghan of Quathlamba, turns into a fight for his life. On his journey, he discovers giant insects, mysterious ships and a conspiracy to bring back an ancient enemy. He also discovers love among the sands of Arroba.
Fully illustrated with maps and diagrams, this history of the Hundred Year War mentioned in the Platinum Mind series gives a user-friendly but complete account of the war that shaped Evigone. From its beginning as a dispute over advanced technology to the the final over-throw of the tsars, this standard text is a must-read for all students of Evigone.
The novels following on from the events of Platinum Mind:
At the University of Panadawn, Professor Faam tells the true story of Nacyon and the fall of the Quill Empire to three special students: Fratris, nephew of the great historian, Frim Folderol; Crotal Cucurbit, the Sultan of Saron; and Fengtai, the bodyguard to Shogun Penti. Nacyon, the Rao of Sapadilla, was tasked by his king to report on his daughter, Princess Zizania, while she was studying on the university ship, Cissoid Corindon. But Zizania, wild and angry at her father, had become an embarrassment to the Quill Empire and Nacyon was tempted into making a fatal decision.
After three years living inside the ark of Panadawn, Fengtai Ryoshi is returning home to Penti Prime. With him, he is carrying copies of his friend and shogun’s book, A History of Evigone. Based on papers thought lost, the book contains the facts about how their people began – facts that won’t be popular among the clans. To help and protect him, Fengtai is wearing a sentient suit of Vespillon armour, a creation of Panadawn and a representative of its technology. Together, they will travel across the galaxy to the constellation of Evigone and challenge the traditions and long-held opinions of Fengtai’s people.
After fifty years of peace, the human empires of the Third Sphere of Evigone are threatened again by the tsars of technology, the Zarktek. James Stone, the man from Earth backed by the power of the ultra-alien ark of Panadawn, seeks to reunite them with a commonwealth of worlds. To achieve this, he sends ambassadors to Saron, Tun and Zamut. But will they see him as the threat and not the Zarktek? Will they stop fighting among themselves? Will they see his ambassadors at all?
In the secret history of Panadawn, dictated to the famous historian Frim Folderol, James Stone tells the story of his ambassadors, their successes and failures, and the fate of his three embassies.
To expand his commonwealth, James Stone, Emperor of Panadawn, has sent ships from the Ark to trade with the worlds of the Third Sphere of Evigone. The first was the Coriolanus, crewed by the Ruddock family, and with them is his sister, Diana, travelling incognito.
Diana has been travelling for a year, visiting ports and cities, and having adventures with her friend, Allis. But as the Tax Collectors of Rickoby terrorise humanity, the Coriolanus has been called to rescue colonists trapped in their north-eastern empire. But more than taxes threaten the lives of the humans and Diana finds herself facing an enemy already familiar to her brother.
Meanwhile, James is trying to build new alliances, especially with the powerful and enigmatic Ulupan Empire...
The policeman’s lot is not a happy one - especially in the capital of the Tun Empire.
An informant is killed by White Hussars in Watergall Village. A young woman is murdered right outside the Momus City Constabulary. The Crown Prince of Tun has just returned from exile and there’s a third murder inside the Royal Court.
For Constable-Commander Kevel Carritch, all three are as important as each other but he has neither the men nor the resources to find their killers. And if he fails, the mayor of Momus City (his uncle) will replace him with one of his sons.
This fully illustrated Guide is the perfect companion book to The Constables of Momus:
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A foreword by the Mayor and a brief history of Momus
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Greater Momus City’s boroughs and districts
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Important addresses
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How to contact the Constabulary or the Fire Brigade
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Public Houses
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Parks and Squares
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Churches, chapels and temples
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Galleries and museums and Private Clubs
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Momus City Centre Maps
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An A-Z of streets
Against a backdrop of assassination, political change and terrifying violence, Girella is the story of a young woman’s survival and her rise from obscurity to become a voice for justice in a dangerous constellation.
Girella, the youngest member of the Parrhesia family, lives in the shadow of her brother, sister and her famous mother. Lonely and lacking in confidence, her solace is her radio and the sounds of alien music from a world on the far side of the galaxy - a world that will have an impact on her future as well as her present.
This concise version of the Pinax Encyclopaedia contains everything the books have been based on for the last 40 years:
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Includes the origins of Evigone
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A complete cosmography of the spheres
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A detailed history of the Third Sphere with new developments
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A gazetteer of the current status of the worlds of the Third sphere
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Over 100 maps
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Hundreds of diagrams, icons, illustrations, paintings and photographs
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This companion book to the Concise Encyclopaedia contains all the ships described in the novels along with many others that are not (or to be included in the future):
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The warships and civilian ships of every empire
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Detailed descriptions of each one
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Hundreds of diagrams
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Maps and flags
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In the future of Panadawn's relationship with Evigone...
Outside the constellation of Evigone, on the other side of the galaxy, Captain Livia of Sagan, a genetically-engineered super-soldier, has been tasked with defending the last gateway to Earth. When the hostile and enigmatic Tyn try to seize the gate, her ship cannot stop them but sends her through the wormhole before it destroys itself and the entrance behind her.
William Bridgeman, office drone, takes his annual holiday in the Highlands and sees Livia falling from the sky. In a rare moment of courage, he rescues her from a stormy sea.
Meanwhile, back across the galaxy, a terrible war is about to reach its climax. Nobody is safe, including the Earth. Can Livia and William find a solution or will both Evigone and Earth become victims of the war-globes of Tyn?
A terrible accident has robbed Hellia of everything she loved about being a Sagan and for fifteen years she has hidden herself away, believing nothing would change. And yet, deep down, what has she really lost?
Meanwhile, across the galaxy, a jealous guardian is putting the safety of the Earth at risk. Unable to make contact with the planet’s defender, her uniqueness is seen as a possible solution. But will she have the courage to face her future or will she fall again?
Hellia’s Climb is the story of a woman looking for a second chance and of the man she needs to save to climb back to where she was.
On an isolated world, Professor Martin Sable is searching desperately for a way to rescue its people from rising
temperatures, toxic rain and the collapse of their society. Can he find the secret to their survival before it’s too late or will he have to call on the help of his former student, the Emperor of Panadawn, to use force to save them from themselves?
Meanwhile, on the other side of the galaxy, Hellia is finding it difficult to re-adjust to a life she thought she had lost forever. Is she doing enough with her second chance at being a proper Sagan again? Should she be doing more? When the Emperor asks her to rescue his old friend, she doesn’t hesitate to accept the challenge.
Hellia’s world changes forever when she encounters the professor and his mission. But even together, can they save a planet where its people seem determined to die? And what is the secret behind their existence – what lies beneath the surface of their lives?
And now for something completely different...
