Synopses & Reviews
Streetfighter, fugitive, hero...Aubry Knight is now a powerful man with powerful friends. And someone wants to kill him.
Their opening shot is the death of one of Aubry's dearest friends. Their next attack is on Aubry's child. Knight is drawn inexorably toward New Africa, toward the mysteries of his own past, and toward a future that may take him far from Los Angeles and the only life he's ever known.
To win this battle, and save his family, Aubry Knight must defeat himself.
Review
"With
Firedance Steven Barnes has given science fiction a novel that combines fine writing, wide expertise, and tremendous powers of invention with characters so intensely alive you begin to feel they may have created the author." --Peter O'Donnell, author of the
Modesty Blaise series
"Barnes delivers superior adventure fiction, with the best fight scenes being written. Aubry remains physically invincible, emotionally brittle and intellectually aware, and his 21st-century world is believably wondrous and terrible." --Starlog
Synopsis
The third book in Barnes' series about Aubry Knight, set in a future Los Angeles, which has nearly been destroyed by an earthquake, where bio-engineering has given humanity the ability to create supermen. When an enemy attacks Aubry's child, the streetfighter is drawn inexorably toward New Africa, toward the mysteries of his own past, and into danger.
About the Author
Born in Los Angeles in 1952,
Steven Barnes began writing at the age of five, and since that time has published over two million words. His first published collaboration, "The Locusts," was nominated for the 1980 Hugo award, and his Outer Limits episode "A Stitch In Time" was nominated for a Cable Ace Award and won an Emmy for Amanda Plummer. He also wrote a one-woman show based on the life of Bessie Coleman (the first Black Aviatrix), been the Kung-Fu columnist for
Black Belt Magazine (he holds dan rankings in Judo and Karate), and served as the host of the world's longest-running science fiction radio show,
Hour 25. Currently living in Washington State with his wife, Novelist Tananarive Due and his daughter Lauren Nicole, Steven is working on a series of novels set in prehistoric Africa, for which he recently spent two weeks on Tanzania's Serengeti plain.