{"product_id":"a-psi-tech-novelisbn-9780756410179","title":"A Psi-Tech Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eTo combat manipulative megacorporations with telepathic technology, two heroes must rebel, overthrowing the enemy's oppressive influence in the second book in this exciting sci-fi adventure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBen Benjamin, psi-tech Navigator, and Cara Carlinni, Telepath, can never go home again. To the Trust and Alphacorp alike, they are wanted criminals. Murder, terrorism, armed insurrection, hijacking, grand theft, and kidnapping are just the top of a long list of charges they’ll face if they’re caught.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e So they better not get caught.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e These are the people who defied the megacorporations and saved a colony by selling the platinum mining rights and relocating ten thousand colonists somewhere safe, and they’re not saying where that is.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e They take refuge on crimelord-run Crossways Station with the remnants of their team of renegade psi-techs and the \u003ci\u003eSolar Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, their state-of-the-art jump-drive ship. They’ve made a promise to find a missing space ark with thirty thousand settlers aboard. But to do that, Ben and Cara have to confront old enemies.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Alphacorp and the Trust: separately they are dangerous, united they are unstoppable. They want to silence Ben and Cara more than they want to upstage each other. If they have to get rid of Crossways in order to do it, they can live with that. In fact, this might be the excuse they’ve been looking for….Praise for the Psi-Tech novels:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Space opera isn't dead; instead, delightfully, it has grown up.... A fine example of a novel which has its \u003cb\u003eroots in the subgenre but grows beyond it\u003c\/b\u003e.\" —Jaine Fenn, author of \u003ci\u003ePrinciples of Angels \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Bedford mixes romance and intrigue in this promising debut, which opens the Psi-Tech space opera series.... \u003cb\u003eReaders who crave high adventure and tense plots\u003c\/b\u003e will enjoy this voyage into the future.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eA nostalgic space opera\u003c\/b\u003e.... Bedford's prose is brisk and carries the reader quite sufficiently along.\" —Tor.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A well-defined and intriguing tale set in the not-too-distant future.... \u003cb\u003eEverything is undeniably creative and colorful\u003c\/b\u003e, from the technology to foreign planets to the human (and humanoid) characters. Author Bedford's worldbuilding feels very complete and believable, with excellent descriptions bringing it all to life.\" —\u003ci\u003eRT Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I'm very, very excited to see where this series goes next. The foundation that Bedford has laid has so much potential and promise. \u003cb\u003eThis is an author I will watch.\u003c\/b\u003e\" —Bookworm Blues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The first of a \u003cb\u003enew space opera series that delivers the goods \u003c\/b\u003eand holds lots of promise of things to come.\" —SF Signal\u003cb\u003eJacey Bedford \u003c\/b\u003ehas a string of short story publication credits on both sides of the Atlantic. She lives a thouand feet up on the edge of the Yorkshire Pennines in a two hundred year stone house. She has been a librarian, postmistress, rag-doll maker, and a folk singer in an a cappella trio. She can be found at jaceybedford.co.uk or on Twitter at @JaceyBedford.\u003cp\u003eChapter One\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWANTED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIT WAS ALL IN THE PLANNING.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForcing people to go against their nature was almost impossible. The trick was to ascertain their true nature and allow them to indulge it—at the right time and in the right place. That was the art of the true puppet master. One of the problems with being so far from the action, however, was that once you set things in motion, you had to wait. And that was the hardest part.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGabrius Crowder glared at the deepening purple sky outside his window, high up in the Trust’s administrative headquarters. Arkhad City glowed bright in the distance, artificial light overtaking the natural as Chenon’s fifty-hour day slid into its long dusk. Down in the compound below, tiny figures scurried between warehouses and the immense packing station next to the shuttle port, some on foot, others with float carts. Unobscured by trees or buildings, a kilometer of manicured, pink vegetation rolled to the perimeter, where a glistening curtain of pure power, beautiful but deadly, kept out unwanted visitors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrowder turned and gazed at the holographic galaxy hovering in the middle of his ops room. Tiny pinpoints of white light marked the Trust’s colonies while the jump gate hubs blinked rhythmically in green. The platinum-producing planets glowed blue. Not enough of them. Never enough. The jump gate network devoured platinum as fast as the megacorporations could refine it. Platinum, or lack of it, was the curse of the interstellar age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe reached into the display and touched Olyanda, platinum rich and almost in the bag for the Trust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlmost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe puppets were in the theater, the show had begun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DAW Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300020605157,"sku":"NP9780756410179","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780756410179_9875629d-6c29-4b8b-b52d-78b2de5e527b.jpg?v=1730743415","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-psi-tech-novelisbn-9780756410179","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}