Well it looks like SENTIENTS of ORION will have a November release on E-Reads. I’m very delighted to be bring the books out through this well established and respected company who have authors like Harlan Ellison, Greg Bear, Piers Anthony and Isaac Asimov.
So immensely pleased to see Dark Space mentioned on Liviu Suciu’s list for 2007. Liviu’s probably one of the most well read SFF critics on the web:
Shall I go for new covers or stay with the old?
Here’s a mock up Amy did for me a while ago. What do you think of this kind of look?
It’s been a while since I announced the release of Sentients of Orion in e-book form in the US. Things went quiet then because it’s taken me months to organise some admin stuff to do with the release. Finally that’s completed, so I hope to have a release date for you soon.
I’m also very excited to whisper that Wayne Haag (the amazing artist ANKARIS) and I will be doing some work together on the Sentients series release in the USA and maybe other projects in time. Details to come!
For those of you who have supported Sentients during its release in the the Commonwealth (particularly my then editor, Darren Nash), I thank you from the bottom of my heart. As some of you know, I wept blood over this series. I’m so happy to think it will get a wider release. If the ebook sales go alright, then it may be available POD.
So when the time comes, I will ask you to spread word for me.
love
Marianne x0
Art of Ankaris
Over at HumanitysDarkerSide they had this to say about the series:
I really liked all four books of “Transformation Space”. I wanted to keep on reading from one book to the next and had to struggle to put them down. The characterization was interesting and de Pierres style of writing, catching.
Read the full review here.
This review came from S J Higbee’s website Brainfluff:
Transformation Space is the last book in this sweeping space opera by de Pierres, so clearly if you haven’t read the previous three books you need to go back to the start of the series and track down Dark Space. However, if you’ve been waiting for this final instalment, the question has to be – does she deliver on the previous excellent storylines that have propelled this series to such admiring attention?
Read the rest of the review here.
Dark Space has been reviewed over at Musings of a Hobbyist where you can read the review in full. Here is an excerpt:
The characters are real and solid. No one seems to be truly evil, or truly good, rather each person has many layers, giving them a genuine depth. And, like real life, relationships between the characters don’t always go the way one would expect.
So, the verdict: I loved it. I have to go and hunt the second book out TODAY.
It’s always a pleasure to come across people reading the Sentients of Orion series. This review made my day:
When I first started reading this series, I had a hard time getting into it. Now I’m on book three, I can hardly put this book down! Each chapter is written from a different character’s point of view. I get so into the story, that when one of the chapter’s end I can feel myself dying to get through until that character’s next chapter. But then, I get caught up in the next chapter and the cycle repeats. As the reader you just can’t tear yourself away from the story she’s constructed.
Read the rest of it here: http://novel.vintage-blue.net/?p=862
Not sure if this is a pirate site but the summation of the series is a nice one:
Marianne de Pierres presents an engaging space opera with plenty of action. Sheltered baronessa Mira Fedor, a minor noble of the mining planet Araldis, expects to become the first female pilot of the royal fleet’s AI command ship. She instead finds herself on the run from the Principe, who wants to tear away her piloting skills and give them to his son, Trinder Pellegrini. When playboy Trin enrages his father and is banished to a meaningless desk job, he uncovers machinations related to the family’s mines that may be connected with a burgeoning alien invasion. Playing with the time line, de Pierres creates an absorbing story as the consequences and actions resolve to show her grand design. Twists and hints will keep readers eagerly awaiting the next volumes.
Danielle Neuman, an artist with a focus in comics has done a fantastic concept sketch for my character Mira Fedor.
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