Pirate Sun
Return to Virga, a bubble universe artificially separated from our own future universe, and the setting of Sun of Suns and Queen of Candesce.
Chaison
Fanning, the admiral of a fleet of warships, has been captured and
imprisoned by his enemies, but is suddenly rescued and set free. He
flees through the sky to his home city to confront the ruler who
betrayed him. And perhaps even to regain his lovely, powerful, and
subversive wife, Venera, who he has not seen since she fled with the
key to the artificial sun at the center of Virga, Candesce.
Schroeder sets a whole new standard for hard SF space opera.
Karl Schroeder
Karl Schroeder is a professional futurist as well as one of Canada's most popular science fiction and fantasy authors. He divides his time between writing fiction and analyzing, conducting workshops and speaking on the potential impacts of science and technology on society. The author of several novels, he has been translated into about a dozen languages. Karl lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter.
Virga
Virga consists of five books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.