
Thomas King
9 SeriesThomas King is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter, and photographer. He is best known for his novels Medicine River, Green Grass, and Running Water.
In Thomas King's "In Surrection," the first book of the Minerva Chronicles series, Markus Crowe-Valdez arrives as a prisoner at a commercial gulag on a distant world. Tasked with exoplanet colonization, Markus uncovers a dark secret about the colony and becomes entangled in a brutal rivalry between terraforming moguls. To survive, he must lead his fellow prisoners in a rebellion against the moguls. Additionally, Markus seeks an alliance with a sophisticated alien race that watches humanity with caution and suspicion.