by Linda Nagata
Two more days passed before an FBI agent knocked on the door of her hotel room. Ava let her in, sure that she’d be out of a job soon, and that she faced years of legal issues. So be it. She wanted to tell what she knew anyway.
“But not in some secret court,” Ava warned the agent. “I want a promise I’ll be able to testify at a public hearing, without HADAFA filtering the reality of what I have to say.”
Too much information was hidden away from the public eye, classified, for no legitimate reason. Sigrún had thrived in that culture of secrecy, a hidden infestation, evolving in dark corners and spreading unseen.
Ava said, “Let me do what I can to let in a little light.”
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Acknowledgments
After spending two years on the far-future Inverted Frontier series, I wanted my next novel to be closer to home. Pacific Storm is the result.
As always, I owe a huge thank you to my freelance editor Judith Tarr, who helped me to make this a better book, and to Sherwood Smith, who served as copy editor.
Thanks are also due to my beta readers, Dallas Nagata-White, Ilima Loomis, Ken Malphurs, and Ron Nagata. Ron went on to read the manuscript three times to make sure everything was just right, and Ken continued to patiently answer technical questions right up until the day I declared the novel “done.” Thank you also to Gabby Hirata for her help with Chinese names. Any remaining errors and deficiencies are my own.
Last but never least, thank you to everyone who’s taken the time to read this book, or others I've written. Your support and your encouragement are deeply appreciated.
If you enjoyed Pacific Storm—or any of my books—I hope you'll take a few minutes to post a reader review at your favorite online book vendor. Positive reader reviews are so helpful because they boost a writer's visibility, and that leads to more sales, as well as more promotional opportunities—all necessary to sustain a career. Thank you for helping out!
— Linda Nagata
October 2020
If you enjoyed Pacific Storm, look for
The Last Good Man
by Linda Nagata
Scarred by war. In pursuit of truth.
Army veteran True Brighton left the service when the development of robotic helicopters made her training as a pilot obsolete. Now she works at Requisite Operations, a private military company established by friend and former Special Ops soldier Lincoln Han. ReqOp has embraced the new technologies. Robotics, big data, and artificial intelligence are all tools used to augment the skills of veteran warfighters-for-hire. But the tragedy of war is still measured in human casualties, and when True makes a chance discovery during a rescue mission, old wounds are ripped open. She’s left questioning what she knows of the past, and resolves to pursue the truth, whatever the cost.
The Last Good Man is a powerful, complex, and very human tale.
“A new novel by Linda Nagata is always an event. The Last Good Man pulls us into next month’s headlines with a conviction and energy that makes for an extraordinary tale.” —Hugo and Nebula award-winner Greg Bear, author of War Dogs and Darwin’s Radio.
“...a thrilling novel that lays bare the imminent future of warfare.” —Publishers Weekly starred review
“Nagata is rapidly assuming her place among the greats of military science fiction.” —Jerry D. Lenaburg, New York Journal of Books
“The Last Good Man is a fantastic, lightning-fast thriller that hits all the right notes: an engaging story set in an all-too-plausible future, advanced technology, plenty of action, and fantastic, well-rounded characters.” —Andrew Liptak, The Verge
“...if you want a novel with pulse-pounding action, in which soldiers square off against the futuristic machines — a novel that you won’t be able to put down once the action heats up — [The Last Good Man] delivers with the precision and firepower of a tactical missile...not only a cracking good read, it is a novel driving first, and fast, down the road we are seemingly already set upon.” —Paul Weimer, B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog
“Nagata has devised a thinking-reader’s future-military scenario, a highly qualified adventure in which every thrill comes with a realization of what it costs, what it says about the world that enables it, what it means to fight and kill and face death.” —Russell Letson, Locus
“If you like your military science fiction grounded in the real and in the probable, this is your book.” —Michelle West, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
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More Books by Linda Nagata
Near-Future Science Fiction
Pacific Storm
The Last Good Man
Limit of Vision
Tech-Heaven
The Red Trilogy:
The Red: First Light
The Trials
Going Dark
Far-Future Science Fiction
Inverted Frontier Series:
Edges
Silver
The Nanotech Succession:
Tech-Heaven (prequel)
The Bohr Maker
Deception Well
Vast
Memory
Skye-Object 3270a (young adult/middle grade)
Fantasy Novels
The Wild
Stories of the Puzzle Lands Duology:
The Dread Hammer
Hepen the Watcher
Short Fiction Collections
Light and Shadow
Goddesses & Other Stories
Additional information on all of Linda Nagata’s books, including sample chapters and links to print, ebook, and audio versions, can be found at the author's website: MythicIsland.com.
About the Author
Linda Nagata’s work has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, John W. Campbell Memorial, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial awards. She has won the Nebula and is a two-time winner of the Locus award.
Linda is best known for her high-tech science fiction, including the near-future thriller, The Last Good Man, and the far-future adventure series, Inverted Frontier.
Linda has lived most of her life in Hawaii, where she’s been a writer, a mom, a programmer of database-driven websites, and an independent publisher. She lives with her husband in their long-time home on the island of Maui.