Dragons in the Stars
Jael LeBrae, a young female star rigger, rebels against an abusive ship's master and dares to take "the mountain route" through a region of hyperspace where legend has it that dragons dwell. But no one believes that real dragons lurk in the mountains, ready to duel unwary riggers . . . until dragons actually appear in the night sky of the Flux, challenging Jael to a fight to the death.
Help appears when a dragon named Highwing befriends the lonely rigger—but only afterward does Jael realize that she has been caught up in an ancient battle of good and evil, her own appearance foretold by an age-old prophecy.
Upon Jael's return to the dragon realm she finds her friend Highwing sentenced to death for his acts of kindness, and her own life declared forfeit if she should try to intervene. But intervene she must, for the sake of a friend who risked his life to save hers.
Cover Art by Jael
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First Ebook printing, June 2009
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Copyright© 1992,2001 by Jeffrey A. Carver A portion of this work appeared in substantially different form as the novelette "Though All the Mountains Lie Between," first published in the Science Fiction Times, and the anthology Dragons of Darkness, copyright © 1980 by Jeffrey Carver.
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Books by Jeffrey A. Carver
The Star Rigger Universe (in chronological order in the future history)
Panglor Dragons in the Stars Dragon Rigger Star Rigger's Way Eternity's End Seas of Ernathe
The Chaos Chronicles
Neptune Crossing: Volume One Strange Attractors: Volume Two The Infinite Sea: Volume Three Sunborn: Volume Four
Novels of the Starstream
From a Changeling Star Down the Stream of Stars
Standalone Novels
The Infinity Link The Rapture Effect Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway: Clypsis Battlestar Galactica (miniseries novelization)
Dedication Page
For Chuck— one of the good dragons
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For Crystal— a true dream rigger
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