What if the father you thought was dead, suddenly appeared? Kyda had always thought she was an orphan. But everything changed when she and her friends entered the Gregor system and the Touri Empire. Many hidden dangers and conspiracies lurk at every turn. And, a stunning event brings the Touri Empire to the verge of chaos. Can Kyda learn to navigate in the Touri Empire and also be there for her father? In the Empire continues the epic Space Opera series about friendship and family, which will take you to new worlds, relentless enemies and a heart pound space adventure.

What if the way to defeat the ancients lay in a set of codes? Kyda is running out of time to save her father. With a vessel and her friends, she embarks on a rescue mission to the House of Goen, where she will encounter evil beyond her imagination. Can Kyda get to her father before he is lost to Pandora's wrath? In the Code continues the epic Space Opera series about friendship and family, which will take you to new worlds, relentless enemies and a heart pound space adventure.

What does a Touri artifact have to do against the Primod threat? Kyda's journey brings her to Riboz, an ice planet. But things are not as they always seem. Kozun is waiting for them, seeking an artifact of great importance. His prized possession. Trying to retreive the artifact, with the stakes never being higher, Kyda faces a new dilemma from within her team. Something she never expected. Artifact Hunt is Book 2 in a Space Opera action thrill ride with twists and turns and space battles in the same Kyda Tren universe.

What if the legend of your father didn't meet the mark of real life? Kyda had never felt more proud of her father. Every species in her system had often glorified him to be greater in every sense of the word. But as Kyda got dragged into the conspiracies and politics of the Touri Empire, she found her relationship with her father becoming strained. Could Kyda learn to be the daughter her father always dreamed of? In the Ring continues the epic Space Opera series about friendship and family, which will take you to new worlds, relentless enemies and a heart pound space adventure.

What dangers await Kyda on Remod, the Primod archives planet? Arriving at the position where Remod is supposed to be, they find nothing. Things are not as they seem, as Kyda and her friends must unravel the mystery of the planet Remod. But the stakes are higher than ever. A plethora of Primod agents are following their every move. And at the most unexpected of moments, an internal threat arises. Mission Remod is Book 3 in a Space Opera action thrill ride with twists and turns and space battles in the same Kyda Tren universe.

Nothing could prepare Kyda to face her worst enemy. Trapped in the Gregor system with her friends and father, a new threat is rising from the ashes with one goal. Destroy the Touri Empire and then everything else in the system. A dark force unlike anything anyone has seen before. And in the most unexpected of moments, Kyda comes eye to eye with her worst enemy. But something is different. Very different. Kyda must learn to trust her instincts as she navigates a path fraught with uncertainty. Recast Identity is Book 1 in a Space Opera action thrill ride with twists and turns and space battles in the same Kyda Tren universe.

What if the way to defeat the ancients lay in a set of codes? Kyda is running out of time to save her father. With a vessel and her friends, she embarks on a rescue mission to the House of Goen, where she will encounter evil beyond her imagination. Can Kyda get to her father before he is lost to Pandora's wrath? In the Code continues the epic Space Opera series about friendship and family, which will take you to new worlds, relentless enemies and a heart pound space adventure.

An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth century and the compositions of Prokofiev and Stravinsky, this exceptionally insightful and well-researched book explores how Russian symbolist poets interpreted opera and prompted operatic innovation. Simon Morrison shows how these works, though stylistically and technically different, reveal the extent to which the operatic representation of the miraculous can be translated into its enactment. Morrison treats these largely unstudied pieces by canonical composers: Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, Rimsky-Korsakov's Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, Scriabin's unfinished Mysterium, and Prokofiev's Fiery Angel. The chapters, revisionist studies of these composers and scores, address separate aspects of Symbolist poetics, discussing such topics as literary and musical decadence, pagan-Christian syncretism, theurgy, and life creation, or the portrayal of art in life. The appendix offers the first complete English-language translation of Scriabin's libretto for the Preparatory Act. Providing valuable insight into both the Symbolist enterprise and Russian musicology, this book casts new light on opera's evolving, ambiguous place in fin de siècle culture.

How science fiction forged a unique Russian vision of modernity distinct from Western models

What if the stars collided? Tredd Bounty is a navy reject turned bounty hunter, living in the grimy world of Spit City on orbit around planet Heeg. When he is given the chance to take on a dangerous yet lucrative mission to find and capture the mysterious Starcrasher device, rumoured to have the power to move the stars themselves, it seems like his luck is about to turn. He gathers a motley crew: an ex-navy pilot suffering from random black-outs; a Jindalar groupie hiding a shocking secret; a strapping Andron mechanic unable to step foot on any planet; and an eccentric doctor. Together, they take their battered Rutger-class cargo ship on a journey to uncharted star systems, luxurious space stations, and, against all odds, up against the unyielding Dawn Alliance Navy. But Tredd is hiding a superhuman secret: the ability to stop time. It is both a blessing that has kept him alive through many a suicide mission, and a curse that has dragged him down. As he travels across the universe, he finds that he can no longer ignore his past, and must face his lost childhood sweetheart and the men who betrayed him years ago. As he begins to close in on the Starcrasher, so do other, darker forces. Tredd realises he's not the only one with a dark secret, and that the mythical gods, the Shades, might just be more than just the bedtime story he heard as a child. Starcrasher is an exhilarating adventure, moving faster than the speed of light through an original universe that combines the technological wonders of the sci-fi genre with urban fantasy. If you loved Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy, the Space Quest video game series, and Firefly TV series, you'll love Starcrasher and the Shades Space Opera series.