The Leeshore

Warring factions invade an alien water-surfaced world that is home to a pair of twins in this science fiction adventure from the Hugo Award–winning author.

Founded as a way station to supply orbiting starships, the island Leeshore fell prey to the Alteretics, a fanatical religious cult responsible for devastating Earth in the conflict known as the Hardware War. When their attempt to impose their "god" in place of the world's computer networks failed, the Alteretics fled to the stars, targeting the way station planets and slaughtering everyone they couldn't convert to their beliefs.

Abitibi and Jellico were born on Leeshore, the twin children of a renowned Earth biologist, and the only survivors of the Alteretics' onslaught. Growing up on the water world, they understand how to interact with its environment and native species, utilizing Leeshore's technology to help them travel between islands and stockpile resources. It is the only life they have ever known.

Now their home is a battleground. Soldiers from Earth's despotic regime, the Asian Federation, are on Leeshore pursuing Alteretics. Recruited against their will, the twins are forced into service to fight the cultists. Caught in the crossfire between two powerful enemies and desperate to escape both, Abitibi and Jellico discover the shocking truth about the Alteretics' "god" and the Federation's true mission to acquire it at all costs . . .

"Well-conceived . . . intriguing . . . a superb exercise in serious science fiction." —The New York Times Book Review