Life, Interrupted

Fire Sanctuary by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel


"Fire Sanctuary, her first novel, is a new entry in the unnamed sub genre of science fiction where the Darkover Books of Marion Zimmer Bradley and the Pern books of Anne McCaffrey fall. The intricacies of the well-controlled plot are far too great to go into here -- there is much upheaval, much intrigue, and much romance. . .a particularly fine mix."

---LOCUS Magazine
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"Both the world and its inhabitants held me absolutely spellbound through two successive readings. Kimbriel was nominated for the John Campbell Award on the strength of this, her first novel. She didn’t win it, but...the prize would have been richly deserved."

---Science Fiction and Fantasy Forum

I hope. Here's the link. Let me know if everything works!

The reviews haven't migrated yet -- it looks very naked.

It all started here. It was my first publication (other than poetry) and I was nominated for the John W. Campbell award for best new SF writer for it. I write differently, now, and I hope each book is better, but this is still a fun read. I had to lop off the death of an interstellar empire to make the word count requirements, but such is life! Hope you enjoy it.

And you can pick however you want to read the three books. They were written and first published as Fire Sanctuary, Fires of Nuala and Hidden Fires. Chronologically, they are Fires of Nuala, Hidden Fires and Fire Sanctuary.

"An ambitious book, at once a cultural extrapolation, a love story, and the struggle for control of an unusual planet. A tale of loyalties, intrigue, action . . . entwining the fates of people and worlds."

-- Author Roger Zelazny

"Fire Sanctuary, her first novel, is a new entry in the unnamed sub genre of science fiction where the Darkover Books of Marion Zimmer Bradley and the Pern books of Anne McCaffrey fall. The intricacies of the well-controlled plot are far too great to go into here -- there is much upheaval, much intrigue, and much romance...a particularly fine mix."

---LOCUS Magazine

Revised and with a new afterword (originally a forward, but you know e-book requirements!) by the author. Available at Book View Cafe starting March 29, 2011. Free sample chapters!

It's the last day for free chapters of Fires of Nuala, over at Book View Cafe. And . . . if everything stays on schedule, Fire Sanctuary is coming March 29th, 2011!



Fire Sanctuary. A novel of betrayal, forgiveness, healing, and second chances.

Rising like a phoenix from the embers of an abandoned scientific expedition, the people of Nuala are the definition of survivors. They have fought back against the deadly radiation levels of their beautiful, dangerous world. Nualans have battled frightening mutations, genetic shift, and the highest rate of infertility in the Axis Republic. Their reward is a society based on tolerance, compassion, and cultural diversity, descendants who can sense a lie (and a few who can heal by touch) -- and a bonanza of the rarest platinum group metal in the known galaxy.

Balanced on the border between the Axis Republic and the Fewha Empire, ruled by a constitutional monarchy, the small Nualan system counters its low birth rate by sending out its children to search for mates to expand the planetary gene pool. Some Axis citizens choose Nuala. One, a decorated soldier named Moran, is about to marry a Nualan princess.

But heirs to power and wealth have enemies, both homegrown and interstellar. There are those who would kill to keep an Axis warrior from marrying a Nualan . . . and those who think it's the perfect smoke screen to keep anyone from noticing where the border is about to shift.

Nuala means survival. Survival against all odds, all enemies, all fortune.

They're going to have to prove it.

With a special introduction by the author.