By Michael Grossberg
J. Kenton Pierce’s A Kiss for Damocles, nominated for the next Prometheus Award for Best Novel, offer space opera with young-adult appeal.
Pierce, nominated for the first time for a Prometheus Award, describes what inspired his novel and how it fits into his future history in an interview posted on the website of the book’s publisher, Raconteur Press.
Launching Pierce’s ambitious projected multi-book Tales of the Long Night saga, A Kiss for Damocles is set in a complex future where interstellar war has ravaged worlds and where the homesteaders on one planet are struggling to rebuild.