End of Childhood and Moving The Pieces

These are books in two different series taking place in the same fictional universe at roughly the same time.

Both books cover the beginning and first engagements in the long-awaited and prepared for war between the fractal demons and the Empire of Humanity, and they were released almost together.

End of Childhood (Amazon link Books2Read link) happens from the main Imperial perspective; how the people of the Empire fare against the demonic invasion. The technology is far advanced, as are the people – but it’s been so long since there was a serious threat, many are not possessed of the skills of survival. The main viewpoint character is Graciela Juarez di Scimtar (“Grace”), an Earthwoman who happens to be married to a man from one of the most powerful families of the Empire.

Moving the Pieces (Amazon link Books2Read link) takes place on Calmena, a primitive planet nominally under control of the demons but seeded with human slaves. The Empire has been using the planet as a doorway for scouting the demonic realms, and as a side project, has been surreptitiously stirring up the natives to slowly pry themselves away from demonic domination, bringing the technology from barely Iron Age up to roughly equivalent to Earth in the 1950s over a period of a little under two Earth centuries. The main viewpoint character is Joseph Bernard (“Joe”), a man who’s been on the technology upgrade from the beginning.

The books take place at basically the same time in the same setting – End of Childhood begins a few days earlier – and share some background events.


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