Linda Nagata: the blog at Hahví.net


Introducing Needle

May 15th, 2022

It’s been a long time coming, but Inverted Frontier #3 is real, it’s happening, and it now has a publication date of:

July 12, 2022

It’ll be available on that date in both print and ebook editions. (I’m hoping there will be an audiobook, but I don’t know yet.)

So without further ado, please allow me to introduce you to…

Inverted Frontier #3

NEEDLE

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“Tanjiri is not for you. You are not ready to encounter what exists there.”Needle  by Linda Nagata; art by Sarah Anne Langton

So Lezuri spoke in warning, long ago. Urban still possesses the strange gift—the impossible puzzle—Lezuri gave him that day. A needle, ultra-thin and twelve centimeters long, with a silvery surface that slices light into rainbow glints. All Lezuri’s knowledge lies locked within that needle. Urban has only to discover the trick of opening it, to gain that knowledge for himself—but the needle remains an enigma.

Now Dragon and its fleet of outriders has reached the periphery of Tanjiri system. The belt of ruins lies ahead: a chaos of remnant megastructures from a fallen civilization. Farther in, an Earthlike world orbits in the company of a miraculous living moon created less than 4,000 years ago. An entity—one greater even than Lezuri—must have made that moon. And yet the system is silent. No one, nothing, has answered Dragon’s hails.

Perhaps the entity is gone? But Urban doesn’t believe this. He is sure that when the fleet enters Tanjiri system, he will meet this maker of worlds—with the lives of everyone he loves at stake. Better, safer, to encounter this entity from a position of strength, armed with all the knowledge and power contained within the needle.

So he believes.

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Click here to see a large version of the cover art.

Just as with the first two volumes, the art is by the amazing
Sarah Anne Langton!
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You can preorder the ebook now at

Amazon   •   Apple   •   Barnes & Noble

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Are you a Kobo reader? If so, I want to let you know that the ebook will be available at Kobo, though I won’t be able to set up the preorder there until at least mid-June.

Do you prefer the print edition? Once I have the final, copyedited manuscript, I’ll be able to set up a preorder for the print edition. I’ll let you know as soon as that’s ready.

I know it’s been a long time since book 2 came out. I hope you’ll continue with the series — and thank you for your patience!

FTC disclosure: On this website, links to Amazon are affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases…though it’s definitely not big money. 😉

Posted on: Sunday, May 15th, 2022 at 9:06 am
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