We’re very happy to report that Michael Cobley‘s highly-anticipated new novel is out this week! Published by Orbit Books in the US (Tuesday) and UK (Thursday), SPLINTERED SUNS is the latest stand-alone novel set in Humanity’s Fire the universe. Here’s the synopsis…

A speed of light space adventure novel of a treasure hunt that could unlock all the wonders of a vast and advanced civilization’s lost technologies.

For Pyke and his crew it should have been just another heist. Travel to a backwater desert planet, break into a museum, steal a tracking device then use it to find a ship buried in the planet’s vast and trackless sandy wastes.

Except that the museum vault is a bio-engineered chamber, and the tracking device is sought-after by another gang of treasure hunters led by an old adversary of Pyke’s, the devious Raven Kaligara. Also, the ship is quarter of a million years old and about two kilometres long and somewhere aboard it is the Essavyr Key, a relic to unlock all the treasures and technologies of a lost civilisation…

The other Humanity’s Fire novels are also published in the US and UK by Orbit Books: the first trilogy SEEDS OF EARTH, THE ORPHANED WORLDS, THE ASCENDANT STARS, and the stand-alone novel ANCESTRAL MACHINES.