Ceres Storm

The human race has settled the solar system and expanded out among the stars. In this bizarre, mysterious, and colorful future, the solar system-and indeed human civilization itself-were transformed by nanotech storms. At their height, they swept across the planetary surfaces changing everything in their path. Young Daric has been raised in an isolated enclave on Mars, the clone of a fearsome ruler from the distant past. His identity discovered, the boy is kidnapped and dragged to the quarantined Earth, in search of his progenitor's fabled technologies. Daric escapes and begins a quest across the solar system to discover his fate-which may be the reconquest of a fallen empire.

David Herter lives in Seattle, Washington.

"With its echoes of Vance and Wolf, yet always secure in its own voice, Ceres Storm is that rarest of entities, a deftly plotted, ceaselessly inventive, unflaggingly intelligent adventure tale. As this first novel so emphatically announces, David Herter is an uncommonly talented writer."--Lucius Shepherd

"Ceres Storm is a rousing ride. Imaginative, inventive, gripping."-Jack McDevitt