The instantly popular scenario attracts the attention of Illario Ransome, a near-legendary gamer who had absented himself from play to explore the artistic potential of virtual reality. An enthusiastic player and designer of scenarios for the Game, a vast shared virtual reality role-playing system popular throughout human space, Lioe's fledgling reputation as a session designer allows her to run a new scenario. While her spaceship is undergoing repairs on Burning Bright, a planet enriched by its location on the interstellar trade route between the human and the alien hsai empires, space pilot Quinn Lioe heads to one of the planet's many gaming houses. Scott's accomplished new novel shares some of Dreamships 's interest in virtual reality, but in a much different context. This is science fiction adventure at its classic best. Once again, Scott constructs a brilliantly complex future society and tells a story that involves the mind and the heart. When spacepilot and ambitious young game designer Quinn Lioe gets shore leave on Burning Bright, determined to play the game at its brilliant center, she becomes enmeshed in the conflict between two great empires, a key figure upon whom the fates of fortunes turn. Setting her tale on the free-port planet of Burning Bright, nexus of trade, politically balanced between the human and Hsai empires in space, and center of virtual-reality-gaming for all of civilization, Scott weaves a network of intrigue and suspense. Now, in Burning Bright, Scott tells a passionate, colorful tale of love and death, her best yet.
"She creates a complex world, and her characters are believable and subtle. "A thoughtful, challenging story," said Elizabeth A. With her last novel, Dreamships, she broke into hardcover to widespread acclaim, taking her place among the established names in the field. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, has been holding down a position as "one of science fiction's most talented newcomers" (The Baltimore Sun) through a string of paperback original successes.
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