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    Trickster: A Novel of the Silent Empire

    By Steven Harper

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    The Dream has been shattered, and the majority of Silent who telepathically communicated through it have been cast out by the event known as the Despair, unable to reenter. Now the remaining Silent still capable of linking to the Dream have become a valuable commodity to those in power seeing to keep the lines of galactic communication open...

    In the midst of the Despair, Father Kendi Weaver and the crew of the Poltergeist have a limited window of opportunity to find the loved ones they have lost--including Kendi's parents and siblings, who were sold into slavery more than fifteen years ago.

    But just as Kendi closes in on the whereabouts of his brother and sister, they are taken by a mysterious group intent on using them for their own secret agenda...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBook View Cafe
    Release dateDec 30, 2009
    ISBN9781611386745
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    Trickster: A Novel of the Silent Empire
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    Steven Harper

    Steven Harper Piziks was born with a last name no one can reliably spell or pronounce, so he usually writes under the name Steven Harper. He grew up on a farm in Michigan but has also lived in Wisconsin and Germany and spent extensive time in Ukraine.So far, he’s written more than two dozen novels and over fifty short stories and essays. In 2022, his short story "Eight Mile and the City" in When Worlds Collide by Zombies Need Brains was nominated for the Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award for Short Fiction. When not writing, he plays the folk harp, lifts weights, and spends more time on-line than is probably good for him. He teaches high school English in southeast Michigan, where he lives with his husband. His students think he’s hysterical, which isn’t the same as thinking he’s funny.

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    • 4/5
      Trickster, the third book in Steven Harper’s Silent Empire series, is set shortly after the Despair, in which the majority of the Silent lost the ability to enter the Dream. During the turmoil of the Despair the presence of Kendi’s brother and sister as well as Harenn’s son was detected, and now they are on a mission to rescue them, but they have a limited time window in which to complete their mission. No sooner does Kendi discover the precise whereabouts of his brother and sister than the two are taken by a secret “cult” intent on using them for their own purposes. It will take all the cunning and ingenuity Kendi and his loyal crew can muster if they are to free them. Trickster maintains the same high level of suspense and imagination of the earlier books; and sustaining the human interest Harper further develops his main characters. Kendi is now promoted to Father, and his relationship with Ben is strengthened; but unfortunately we see almost nothing of Sejal. Purley as a matter of interest, there is a reference to the characters from The Catch Trap by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Like the previous books, this makes for a most pleasurable read, with an intricate plot and a few surprises and twists. I do feel though that the quality of the writing lapsed occasionally, especially when filling the reader in on information from previous stories, Harper’s method lacked subtlety. Despite this it is a worthwhile and rewarding adventure.