R. John Walker
Cover of Rule of the Seventy: a crown of steel spikes, blue light in its cracks, hangs in a starry sky over an orchard, a planet rising gold at the end of the path where a lone man walks.

The Brothers · Book Two

Rule of the Seventy

The Gates are shut and the rim is starving. In the capital the Houses are counting signatures on a petition to bring back a king, and Daniel Adon knows exactly who will sign and how many.

Caleb has ships that can go where the Gates cannot. His brother has everything else.

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A Gate of the Reach, far off in deep space: a slim, ancient ring with a tiny keeper's house on its rim and a ring of red light inside it, the signal to stop. Long, weathered freighters hang scattered across the foreground at every angle, near and far, waiting.
A Gate of the Reach “The Gates are shut and the rim is starving.”