Exalted on Bellatrix 1
A novella. Cover art by Tomislav Tikulin.
On his long quest to locate his daughter, Matt Hendrick is approaching the end game. His lover, telepath Mercury Velasquez, has traced Matt s ex-wife and his daughter to the planet of Beltran, Bellatrix I, home of the advanced but reclusive alien race known as the Vhey.
But why have his ex-wife and her lover Dr Hovarth taken Matt s daughter to Beltran? Are they in search of an alien cure for the girl s illness?
Hendrick and Mercury Telemass to Beltran and find a secretive artists colony ruled by the renowned crystal artist Edward Lincoln and discover the secret of Lincoln s fascination with the Vhey. In a moving and horrific dénouement, Hendrick at last finds his daughter but she is in mortal danger from a source other than the natives of Beltran.
Exalted on Bellatrix 1 is the fourth instalment of Eric Brown's thrilling and exotic Telemass Quartet.
Eric Brown
Eric Brown began writing when he was fifteen years and sold his first short story to Interzone in 1986. He has won the British Science Fiction Award twice for his short stories, and his novel Helix Wars was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick award. He has published sixty books, and his latest include the crime novel Murder Take Three, and the short story collection Microcosms, with Tony Ballantyne. He has also written a dozen books for children and over a hundred and forty short stories. He writes a regular science fiction review column for the Guardian newspaper and lives in Cockburnspath, Scotland.
The Telemass Quartet
The Telemass Quartet consists of five primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
