Contact Imminent (The Jani Kilian Chronicles - Book IV) PDF
Preview Contact Imminent (The Jani Kilian Chronicles - Book IV)
Reissued Version of Original Book, published by Author, after Copyright Rights reverted back to her after being Out Of Print for a lengthy Period. Books I-IV available this way, through Author, Book V still only available through original Publisher. Unable to use Original Art due to refusal by Publishers. Exactly the same books in all other details. Originally Published by Harper Voyager Books as a Series in 1990s. Reissued through independent publisher as each one had copyright reverted from 2015. Now First Four are only available through Author directly as of 2020.
Jani Kilian was born in Ville Acadie, the largest city on the Commonwealth colony of Acadia.
Her father Declan, a systems developer, was of Irish descent; her mother Jamira Shah, a shopkeeper, was of South Asian descent.
Jani grew up speaking a French dialect, learned Commonwealth English in primary school, and decided early on that life on a backwater was not for her.
She wanted to see other worlds, so like so many other colony kids, she joined the Service.
It seemed a good idea at the time.
Enemy sighted - Enemy closing - Contact imminent.
Human - Idomeni relations.
Never smooth.
Worsening by the day.
Then a live Service landmine is discovered on the grounds of the Haárin enclave near Chicago.
The attempted removal goes horribly wrong, and the fallout threatens not only the already fragile peace, but the life of Tsecha, Jani Kilian’s idomeni friend and mentor.
In the midst of all this chaos, Jani comes to possess a startling object, a holo of a young man whose face unnerves her.
Determined to uncover the truth behind the image, she also fears what it could be.
A sign of hope…or the tipping point to all out war ?
A War Neither side can win and only death and destruction will be the victors out of what remains.
Kristine Smith is the author of the Jani Kilian series and other science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories under her own name. As Alex Gordon, she has written the supernatural thrillers Gideon and Jericho. Her fiction has been nominated for the Locus Award for First Novel, Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and the IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award, and she was the 2001 winner of the Astounding Award (formerly known as the John W. Campbell Award) for Best New Writer. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, she spent 26 years working as a pharmaceutical process development scientist, but now writes full-time. She was born in the Northeast, grew up in the South, and currently lives in the Midwest.
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