A Grey Moon Over China.A Grey Moon Over China Thomas A. Day Black Heron The Black Heron, Egretta ardesiaca is an African heron. It is a medium-sized(42.5–66 cm in height), black plumaged heron with yellow legs and feet. It is found south of the Sahara Desert, including Madagascar, and prefers shallow open, waters, such as the edges of Press PO Box 95676, Seattle WA 98145 0930773780 $25.95 www.blackheronpress.com Winner of the Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction, A Grey Moon Over China is a dark, apocalyptic tale of a future riven rive v. rived, riv·en also rived, riv·ing, rives v.tr. 1. To rend or tear apart. 2. To break into pieces, as by a blow; cleave or split asunder. 3. by human greed. In a world-spanning energy war that pits the United States on one side against Japan and California on the other, a disillusioned dis·il·lu·sion tr.v. dis·il·lu·sioned, dis·il·lu·sion·ing, dis·il·lu·sions To free or deprive of illusion. n. 1. The act of disenchanting. 2. The condition or fact of being disenchanted. company of Army engineers steal the plans for an energy device that could end the war and instead extort To compel or coerce, as in a confession or information, by any means serving to overcome the other's power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as in to compel payments by means of threats of the resurrection of an abandoned space colonization effort to take them away from the dying planet. But they cannot leave all their evils behind as easily as that; armed colonists pursue them, and the wars follow them to the crushing Black Planet where armies are trained, to impoverished farms, and do the heavily guarded portal leading to a nigh-legendary haven. Following its cast of deeply flawed protagonists--the man driven to escape his past by destroying everything connected to it, the woman whose love is so all-consuming it will surely lead to self-destruction, soulless soul·less adj. Lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling. soul  less·ly adv. and merciless warriors
male and female, and a failed priest who must ultimately resurrect the
last shred of his conscience, A Grey Moon Over China is a compelling
chronicle of the dark complexities of human character as surely as it is
a star-spanning adventure.
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