Venus Rain: Worlds Asunder Book II

by Kirt Hickman

Kelly Baker’s life on space station Venus Rain is far from perfect. Her father has deserted the family, her mother labors full-time on the planet surface, and Kelly is forced to raise her young brother practically by herself, while she’s still in college. She tells herself things could be worse, but she has no idea.

When Chinese militants hijack the space station and seize control of the terraforming project, they abandon Kelly’s mother on Venus’s deadly surface. Kelly’s brother goes missing. And a European spy gambles with the lives of Kelly and her family in his effort to oppose the hijackers. Meanwhile the world governments capitalize on the crisis, jockeying for supremacy in a showdown destined to spark a worlds-wide war.

For Kelly, who’s caught in the crossfire, there may be no way out but the void.

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Reviews

Author Kirt Hickman expertly blends politics, science, and human strengths, frailties, and shortcomings to create a fast-paced read that satisfies on multiple levels. The tension begins before you can say "Venus Terraforming Project" and spreads and intensifies as ambitions—and deceptions—are revealed.

- Keith Pyeatt
author of Struck and Dark Knowledge

Kirt Hickman does it again. Welcome to Venus Rain, the Chinese-run space station where intrigue is thick and danger always present. Action and political machinations weave a web whose origins might have had roots in the headlines you read today.

- Nancy Varian Berberick
author of The Lioness and Prisoner of Haven

Brace yourself for a journey even more gripping than before! From its first seductive page to a mesmerizing ending that will blow you away.

- David J. Corwell
author of "Legacy of the Quedana," in Cloaked in Shadow: Dark Tales of Elves

About The Author

Kirt Hickman was born in 1966 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He earned a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1989 and a Master's degree in opto-electronics in 1991, both from the University of New Mexico. Since then, he has worked in research and manufacturing fields related to high-energy lasers, microelectronics, and micro-machines, fields that he leverages to enrich his science fiction. Kirt has also published the sci-fi thriller Worlds Asunder, the writers’ how-to Revising Fiction: Making Sense of the Madness, and the children’s book I Will Eat Anything.

Last Updated: February 22, 2012