The Dust of Stars

The power to create worlds! Remagen Roullei controls the World Engine, an ancient device capable of building an entire solar system from nebular dust. Such an undertaking requires a team of experts--and each build needs a rare, expendable Key to activate the World Engine. Remy's crew of humans and not-so-humans often must seize the Key from ruthless competitors, pirates from a dozen worlds and then battle the elements on strange and deadly worlds. Helping him are the modular-cube Robo...
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The power to create worlds! Remagen Roullei controls the World Engine, an ancient device capable of building an entire solar system from nebular dust. Such an undertaking requires a team of experts--and each build needs a rare, expendable Key to activate the World Engine. Remy's crew of humans and not-so-humans often must seize the Key from ruthless competitors, pirates from a dozen worlds and then battle the elements on strange and deadly worlds. Helping him are the modular-cube Robo sapiens, Click Bait, a beguiling computer expert Siren, a Jack of All Trades and quick-frozen weapons specialists aboard his time-drive enhanced ship, the Tumblebug.What starts as a routine construction for Sir Trig Danwell turns into a dangerous, cutthroat project with unforeseen results. The Dust of Stars is crammed with breathtaking adventure, double dealing on a galactic scale, exotic alien characters and worlds created to be destroyed in cataclysmic collisions.Let there be light! Let there be the thrill of Engineering Infinity!"A marvelous cosmogonic adventure for those who have a thirst for creative sci-fi storytelling. Vardeman intrigues you within the first pages, catapulting you into a mysterious universe." Poison Garden...First Italian steampunk band