Revenant Gun
Kisses only. Any sex is implied and fully off page.
Closed door. No anatomical or crude language.
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* SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLARKE, HUGO, BSFA AND LOCUS AWARDS * 'One of the finest science fiction achievements of the decade' - REACTOR 'A fast, gripping story' - REACTOR 'One of the most ambitious and rewarding science fiction series in print' - STRANGE HORIZONS SHUOS JEDAO IS AWAKE... ...and nothing is as he remembers. He's a teenager, a cadet - a nobody - in the body of an old man; a general in command of an elite force. And he's the most feared, and reviled, man in the galaxy. Jedao carries orders from Hexarch Nirai Kujen to re-conquer the fractured pieces of the hexarchate. But he has no memory of ever being a soldier, let alone a general, and the Kel soldiers under his command hate him for a massacre he can't remember committing. Kujen's friendliness can't hide the fact that he's a tyrant. And what's worse, Jedao and Kujen are being hunted - by an enemy who knows more about Jedao than he does himself...
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