Ceres Storm
The human race has settled the solar system and expanded out among the stars. In this bizarre, mysterious, and colorful future, the solar system – and indeed human civilization itself – were transformed by nanotech storms. At their height, they swept across the planetary surfaces changing everything in their path.
Young Daric has been raised in an isolated enclave on Mars, the clone of a fearsome ruler from the distant past. His identity discovered, the boy is kidnapped and dragged to the quarantined Earth, in search of his progenitor's fabled technologies. Daric escapes and begins a quest across the solar system to discover his fate – which may be the reconquest of a fallen empire.
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David Herter
David Herter is an American author. Herter lives in Seattle, Washington.
His first novel was Ceres Storm in 2000, which was chosen as one of the top 10 science fiction books of 2000 by Amazon.com, followed by Evening's Empire in 2002.
On the Overgrown Path, a novella about the Czech composer Leoš Janá?ek, was published in 2006 by P.S. Publishing, with an introduction by John Clute; a sequel, The Luminous Depths, featuring the writer Karel ?apek and the composer Pavel Haas, with an introduction by Stephen Baxter, was released in 2008. One Who Disappeared completes the trilogy.
